Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVinehttps://www.graymattersradio.comGray Matters with Michael DeVine is a podcast that is dedicated to bringing people together instead of pulling us apart. We are stuck in a bad marriage with our politicians & who else but America's Counselor to guide us to where the answers are, the gray area of the in-between.. Feel like being part of the solution and bringing the country back together again? If so, grab a cold drink and join us in the grayenCurrent EventsGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVinehttps://d1bm3dmew779uf.cloudfront.net/rss/show/3314827/e9d31ac5183ac287e21cb60087369817.pngGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVinehttps://www.graymattersradio.comGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVinemichael@graymattersradio.comWe are stuck in a bad marriage with our politicians & who else but America's Counselor to guide us to where the answers are, the gray area of the in-between.Gray Matters with Michael DeVine is a podcast that is dedicated to bringing people together instead of pulling us apart. We are stuck in a bad marriage with our politicians & who else but America's Counselor to guide us to where the answers are, the gray area of the in-between.. Feel like being part of the solution and bringing the country back together again? If so, grab a cold drink and join us in the graycleanepisodicGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVinemichael@graymattersradio.comGray Matters with Michael DeVine is a podcast that is dedicated to bringing people together instead of pulling us apart. We are stuck in a bad marriage with our politicians & who else but America's Counselor to guide us to where the answers are, the gray area of the in-between.. Feel like being part of the solution and bringing the country back together again? If so, grab a cold drink and join us in the grayNoGray Matters Radio Episode 26: The Big Business Of Legal Marijuanahttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-episode-26aI remember in college sitting around with my friends and talking about what it would be like if marijuana were legalized. Most of our visions centered around going to the local mini-mart and buying a pack of Marlboro Green. How far off could we have been? Just go to any state where marijuana has been legalized for medical or recreational use and you will quickly see that this business is not only here to stay, but whoever was able to get in on it is going to make lot's of money.
But with all of that money has come the very corporate practices that most marijuana patients/enthusiasts are completely against...in fact the yin to their yang. In my own home state of Ohio, we had a legalization bill voted down not because the people didn't want to legalize it, but rather the people behind the bill wanted to have a monopoly where they were the only ones allowed to grow and sell it.
Fast forward a few years and Ohio passed medical marijuana legislation but ask anyone who wanted to open their own dispensary and they quickly found out that corporate interests in the form of outside money and previously owned dispensaries were the only people having their applications approved. Not only that ,just the other day there was an advertisement from former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner about a marijuana industry seminar that helped people invest in the marijuana industry. My how far we have come!
If this wasn't enough to show how corporate interests and monopolies are taking over the industry, the financial banking companies have started taking advantage of dispensary, growers, and merchandisers in the industry in the form of only offering high risk billing and payment solutions. This comes in the form of outlandish credit card processing fees and banking fees which costs these companies hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Its monopolistic because the same companies that refuse to process their payments are the same companies starting high risk processing companies leaving them no options but to take the higher rates.
This is going on across the country and the hypocrisy of politicians who were completely against it 5 years ago are the very same people now allowing these practices to happen. The only thing that changed was the fact that this a billion dollar industry now and the special interest groups have now gotten politicians in their back pocket.
To help us discuss this topic we are inviting Sami Spezio & Dominic Buccilla from Gray Matters Radio's new sponsor Canna Group . The Canna Group LLC was founded on a platform of 30+ years operational experience as consultants in the merchant services industry. Our Mission is to consult and empower business within the dynamically evolving cannabis industry to understand how implement electronic payments into their operation plan. We offer expert knowledge on the ever-changing laws that allow all cannabis businesses, from seed to retail, to accept and utilize debit-based card transactions in a safe environment that will eliminate the risk of cash-based business.
As always I am joined by my co-host the Armchair QB himself Bill Reed to help keep me sane and safely in the gray. So help us tackle the problem of addiction by listening and sharing our show, airing every Monday exclusively on The Reporters Network https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17360454Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:05:48 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineI remember in college sitting around with my friends and talking about what it would be like if marijuana were legalized. Most of our visions centered around going to the local mini-mart and buying a pack of Marlboro Green. How far off could we have...I remember in college sitting around with my friends and talking about what it would be like if marijuana were legalized. Most of our visions centered around going to the local mini-mart and buying a pack of Marlboro Green. How far off could we have been? Just go to any state where marijuana has been legalized for medical or recreational use and you will quickly see that this business is not only here to stay, but whoever was able to get in on it is going to make lot's of money.
But with all of that money has come the very corporate practices that most marijuana patients/enthusiasts are completely against...in fact the yin to their yang. In my own home state of Ohio, we had a legalization bill voted down not because the people didn't want to legalize it, but rather the people behind the bill wanted to have a monopoly where they were the only ones allowed to grow and sell it.
Fast forward a few years and Ohio passed medical marijuana legislation but ask anyone who wanted to open their own dispensary and they quickly found out that corporate interests in the form of outside money and previously owned dispensaries were the only people having their applications approved. Not only that ,just the other day there was an advertisement from former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner about a marijuana industry seminar that helped people invest in the marijuana industry. My how far we have come!
If this wasn't enough to show how corporate interests and monopolies are taking over the industry, the financial banking companies have started taking advantage of dispensary, growers, and merchandisers in the industry in the form of only offering high risk billing and payment solutions. This comes in the form of outlandish credit card processing fees and banking fees which costs these companies hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Its monopolistic because the same companies that refuse to process their payments are the same companies starting high risk processing companies leaving them no options but to take the higher rates.
This is going on across the country and the hypocrisy of politicians who were completely against it 5 years ago are the very same people now allowing these practices to happen. The only thing that changed was the fact that this a billion dollar industry now and the special interest groups have now gotten politicians in their back pocket.
To help us discuss this topic we are inviting Sami Spezio & Dominic Buccilla from Gray Matters Radio's new sponsor Canna Group . The Canna Group LLC was founded on a platform of 30+ years operational experience as consultants in the merchant services industry. Our Mission is to consult and empower business within the dynamically evolving cannabis industry to understand how implement electronic payments into their operation plan. We offer expert knowledge on the ever-changing laws that allow all cannabis businesses, from seed to retail, to accept and utilize debit-based card transactions in a safe environment that will eliminate the risk of cash-based business.
As always I am joined by my co-host the Armchair QB himself Bill Reed to help keep me sane and safely in the gray. So help us tackle the problem of addiction by listening and sharing our show, airing every Monday exclusively on The Reporters Network 3646laws,politics,finance,psychology,business,banking,sociology,reform,small,payment,credit,marijuanancleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineI remember in college sitting around with my friends and talking about what it would be like if marijuana were legalized. Most of our visions centered around going to the local mini-mart and buying a pack of Marlboro Green. How far off could we have been? Just go to any state where marijuana has been legalized for medical or recreational use and you will quickly see that this business is not only here to stay, but whoever was able to get in on it is going to make lot's of money.
But with all of that money has come the very corporate practices that most marijuana patients/enthusiasts are completely against...in fact the yin to their yang. In my own home state of Ohio, we had a legalization bill voted down not because the people didn't want to legalize it, but rather the people behind the bill wanted to have a monopoly where they were the only ones allowed to grow and sell it.
Fast forward a few years and Ohio passed medical marijuana legislation but ask anyone who wanted to open their own dispensary and they quickly found out that corporate interests in the form of outside money and previously owned dispensaries were the only people having their applications approved. Not only that ,just the other day there was an advertisement from former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner about a marijuana industry seminar that helped people invest in the marijuana industry. My how far we have come!
If this wasn't enough to show how corporate interests and monopolies are taking over the industry, the financial banking companies have started taking advantage of dispensary, growers, and merchandisers in the industry in the form of only offering high risk billing and payment solutions. This comes in the form of outlandish credit card processing fees and banking fees which costs these companies hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Its monopolistic because the same companies that refuse to process their payments are the same companies starting high risk processing companies leaving them no options but to take the higher rates.
This is going on across the country and the hypocrisy of politicians who were completely against it 5 years ago are the very same people now allowing these practices to happen. The only thing that changed was the fact that this a billion dollar industry now and the special interest groups have now gotten politicians in their back pocket.
To help us discuss this topic we are inviting Sami Spezio & Dominic Buccilla from Gray Matters Radio's new sponsor Canna Group . The Canna Group LLC was founded on a platform of 30+ years operational experience as consultants in the merchant services industry. Our Mission is to consult and empower business within the dynamically evolving cannabis industry to understand how implement electronic payments into their operation plan. We offer expert knowledge on the ever-changing laws that allow all cannabis businesses, from seed to retail, to accept and utilize debit-based card transactions in a safe environment that will eliminate the risk of cash-based business.
As always I am joined by my co-host the Armchair QB himself Bill Reed to help keep me sane and safely in the gray. So help us tackle the problem of addiction by listening and sharing our show, airing every Monday exclusively on The Reporters Network NoGray Matters Radio Episode 25: Is AOC's Green New Deal Possible? Is It Communism? We Ask The Professor To Weigh Inhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-25Ever since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled her Green New Deal, politicians and pundits have been either saying it is a communist trojan horse or progressive thinking that will save the planet. In my years as a therapist, whenever you see that big of a spread between people's interpretation of something you know the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
With something as complicated as the Green New Deal, we decided that if we were going to take this to The Gray, we needed someone who actually understands history and macro economic theory. So we once again enlist the knowledge of The Professor, Richard DeVine to help us understand the economic feasibility of the Green New Deal and what the effects of a 80% tax rate would be on people making more than 10 million dollars.
Since The Professor actually lived through real communism during the 60s, we asked him to weigh in on any fear that he has about The Green New Deal and what he really thinks of the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
Joining me in the studio as always is The Armchair QB himself, Bill Reed, to keep me honest and firmly in The Gray. Gray Matters Radio airs every Monday and is exclusively distrubuted through The Reporters Network. https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17288771Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:43:56 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineEver since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled her Green New Deal, politicians and pundits have been either saying it is a communist trojan horse or progressive thinking that will save the planet. In my years as a therapist, whenever you see that big of...Ever since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled her Green New Deal, politicians and pundits have been either saying it is a communist trojan horse or progressive thinking that will save the planet. In my years as a therapist, whenever you see that big of a spread between people's interpretation of something you know the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
With something as complicated as the Green New Deal, we decided that if we were going to take this to The Gray, we needed someone who actually understands history and macro economic theory. So we once again enlist the knowledge of The Professor, Richard DeVine to help us understand the economic feasibility of the Green New Deal and what the effects of a 80% tax rate would be on people making more than 10 million dollars.
Since The Professor actually lived through real communism during the 60s, we asked him to weigh in on any fear that he has about The Green New Deal and what he really thinks of the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
Joining me in the studio as always is The Armchair QB himself, Bill Reed, to keep me honest and firmly in The Gray. Gray Matters Radio airs every Monday and is exclusively distrubuted through The Reporters Network. 4137politics,change,taxes,psychology,counseling,republicans,democrats,congress,climate,socialism,communism,environment,aoc,polarization,greennewdealcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineEver since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled her Green New Deal, politicians and pundits have been either saying it is a communist trojan horse or progressive thinking that will save the planet. In my years as a therapist, whenever you see that big of a spread between people's interpretation of something you know the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
With something as complicated as the Green New Deal, we decided that if we were going to take this to The Gray, we needed someone who actually understands history and macro economic theory. So we once again enlist the knowledge of The Professor, Richard DeVine to help us understand the economic feasibility of the Green New Deal and what the effects of a 80% tax rate would be on people making more than 10 million dollars.
Since The Professor actually lived through real communism during the 60s, we asked him to weigh in on any fear that he has about The Green New Deal and what he really thinks of the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
Joining me in the studio as always is The Armchair QB himself, Bill Reed, to keep me honest and firmly in The Gray. Gray Matters Radio airs every Monday and is exclusively distrubuted through The Reporters Network. NoGray Matters Radio Episode 24: Criminal Justice Reform Is The Key To The Addiction Problem W/ Special Guest Juan Garcia Of Cornbread Hustlehttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/ep-24eAnybody that has worked in the addiction industry long enough knows very well that the most important part of treatment/recovery isn’t treatment itself but rather the aftercare. That may surprise many of you considering how much emphasis we have on treatment programs and the costs associated with treatment, but the truth is that real recovery begins and ends with the plan after they finish treatment.
It makes all the sense in the world if you think about it because many of us look at addiction as one part genetics and one part the enviroment someone lives in. How successful could someone be with staying sober if once they get out of treatment they go right back into the same environment that helped contribute to their addiction to begin with? It is almost impossible.
While people who come from a family of means have it much easier to change their environment, people who tend to be poorer and live in lower socioeconomic areas have much less control over changing their environment. That is pretty obvious but you know what factor nullifies your ability for a good aftercare program even if you come from money? Try changing your life and environment around when you have a felony on your record. How exactly does a felony make staying sober more difficult? Easy, with a felony on your record it is almost impossible to get an apartment lease, a good paying job, student loans, etc. I have had clients who come from great families and have totally turned their lives around but still couldn’t get an apartment or a student loan until their felony was expunged from their record.
It is almost impossible to turn your life around when you have such limited options on where you live and how much money you can make at work. This is why most people with felonies on their record go right back into the same environment and will eventually start using again. What is most concerning is we are seeing people with advanced college degrees such as computer science, falling into the cycle of addiction because of the nature of their work. These employees looking to get an edge turn to illegal stimulants which in turn leads to legal trouble because of their habit. Once they have that felony drug or other felonies on their record they can’t get past HR for the big companies because of their legal problems.This is why we are throwing out there that perhaps one of the most impactful & easiest actions that we can take to tackle the addiction problem is criminal justice reform with drug offenders.
To help us dive into this topic we are welcoming our special guest Juan Garcia from the Cornbread Hustle Employment Agency in Dallas, Texas. Juan Garcia is a prison reform advocate and a recruiter for Cornbread Hustle, a staffing agency for second chances. Juan has first hand knowledge of state and private prisons and the struggles of gaining employment after being incarcerated. Juan was sentenced to eight years in prison at the age of 19. Today, he spends most of his time advocating for second chances and putting efforts towards reducing recidivism.
As always I am joined by my co-host the Armchair QB himself Bill Reed to help keep me sane and safely in the gray. So help us tackle the problem of addiction by listening and sharing our show, airing every Monday exclusively on The Reporters Networkhttps://api.spreaker.com/episode/17219327Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:57:47 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineAnybody that has worked in the addiction industry long enough knows very well that the most important part of treatment/recovery isn’t treatment itself but rather the aftercare. That may surprise many of you considering how much emphasis we have on...Anybody that has worked in the addiction industry long enough knows very well that the most important part of treatment/recovery isn’t treatment itself but rather the aftercare. That may surprise many of you considering how much emphasis we have on treatment programs and the costs associated with treatment, but the truth is that real recovery begins and ends with the plan after they finish treatment.
It makes all the sense in the world if you think about it because many of us look at addiction as one part genetics and one part the enviroment someone lives in. How successful could someone be with staying sober if once they get out of treatment they go right back into the same environment that helped contribute to their addiction to begin with? It is almost impossible.
While people who come from a family of means have it much easier to change their environment, people who tend to be poorer and live in lower socioeconomic areas have much less control over changing their environment. That is pretty obvious but you know what factor nullifies your ability for a good aftercare program even if you come from money? Try changing your life and environment around when you have a felony on your record. How exactly does a felony make staying sober more difficult? Easy, with a felony on your record it is almost impossible to get an apartment lease, a good paying job, student loans, etc. I have had clients who come from great families and have totally turned their lives around but still couldn’t get an apartment or a student loan until their felony was expunged from their record.
It is almost impossible to turn your life around when you have such limited options on where you live and how much money you can make at work. This is why most people with felonies on their record go right back into the same environment and will eventually start using again. What is most concerning is we are seeing people with advanced college degrees such as computer science, falling into the cycle of addiction because of the nature of their work. These employees looking to get an edge turn to illegal stimulants which in turn leads to legal trouble because of their habit. Once they have that felony drug or other felonies on their record they can’t get past HR for the big companies because of their legal problems.This is why we are throwing out there that perhaps one of the most impactful & easiest actions that we can take to tackle the addiction problem is criminal justice reform with drug offenders.
To help us dive into this topic we are welcoming our special guest Juan Garcia from the Cornbread Hustle Employment Agency in Dallas, Texas. Juan Garcia is a prison reform advocate and a recruiter for Cornbread Hustle, a staffing agency for second chances. Juan has first hand knowledge of state and private prisons and the struggles of gaining employment after being incarcerated. Juan was sentenced to eight years in prison at the age of 19. Today, he spends most of his time advocating for second chances and putting efforts towards reducing recidivism.
As always I am joined by my co-host the Armchair QB himself Bill Reed to help keep me sane and safely in the gray. So help us tackle the problem of addiction by listening and sharing our show, airing every Monday exclusively on The Reporters Network3854news,addiction,recovery,politics,justice,psychology,criminal,sociology,employment,reform,staffing,felonycleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineAnybody that has worked in the addiction industry long enough knows very well that the most important part of treatment/recovery isn’t treatment itself but rather the aftercare. That may surprise many of you considering how much emphasis we have on treatment programs and the costs associated with treatment, but the truth is that real recovery begins and ends with the plan after they finish treatment.
It makes all the sense in the world if you think about it because many of us look at addiction as one part genetics and one part the enviroment someone lives in. How successful could someone be with staying sober if once they get out of treatment they go right back into the same environment that helped contribute to their addiction to begin with? It is almost impossible.
While people who come from a family of means have it much easier to change their environment, people who tend to be poorer and live in lower socioeconomic areas have much less control over changing their environment. That is pretty obvious but you know what factor nullifies your ability for a good aftercare program even if you come from money? Try changing your life and environment around when you have a felony on your record. How exactly does a felony make staying sober more difficult? Easy, with a felony on your record it is almost impossible to get an apartment lease, a good paying job, student loans, etc. I have had clients who come from great families and have totally turned their lives around but still couldn’t get an apartment or a student loan until their felony was expunged from their record.
It is almost impossible to turn your life around when you have such limited options on where you live and how much money you can make at work. This is why most people with felonies on their record go right back into the same environment and will eventually start using again. What is most concerning is we are seeing people with advanced college degrees such as computer science, falling into the cycle of addiction because of the nature of their work. These employees looking to get an edge turn to illegal stimulants which in turn leads to legal trouble because of their habit. Once they have that felony drug or other felonies on their record they can’t get past HR for the big companies because of their legal problems.This is why we are throwing out there that perhaps one of the most impactful & easiest actions that we can take to tackle the addiction problem is criminal justice reform with drug offenders.
To help us dive into this topic we are welcoming our special guest Juan Garcia from the Cornbread Hustle Employment Agency in Dallas, Texas. Juan Garcia is a prison reform advocate and a recruiter for Cornbread Hustle, a staffing agency for second chances. Juan has first hand knowledge of state and private prisons and the struggles of gaining employment after being incarcerated. Juan was sentenced to eight years in prison at the age of 19. Today, he spends most of his time advocating for second chances and putting efforts towards reducing recidivism.
As always I am joined by my co-host the Armchair QB himself Bill Reed to help keep me sane and safely in the gray. So help us tackle the problem of addiction by listening and sharing our show, airing every Monday exclusively on The Reporters NetworkNoGray Matters Radio Episode 23: We The People...We The Problem...We The Solutionhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-with-michael-devine-eIt doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that America is hopelessly polarized right now. America is stuck in a bad marriage between Democrats and Republicans and they are putting the children (i.e. us) in the middle. As a result each side is so dug in that they are waging a gang style war using rhetoric and division as their weapon of choice.
While their tactics are great for votes and ratings, the collateral damage to the country is painfully clear. How many families and friendships have been torn apart because of politics the past 6 years? How many people do you know have talked about how stressed, angry, & anxious they are about our current political climate?
If that wasn't bad enough, just this week we had two incidents where we had a US Coast Guard Officer planing a terrorist attack on liberal media personalities and politicians and we also had a college student beaten up at UC Berkley because they were recruiting for their college conservative group.
Things are not good and something bad is going to happen unless we take action now. So what exactly do we do about it? That is why I named this episode We the People...We The Problem...We The Solution. We can't be naieve and think we can just join hands and sing out way out of this. The thing that we have to realize is that we are all being taken advantage of by the political parties and allowing ourselves to be turned on each other. They are not going to change because what they are doing is working and they don't seem to really see or care about the collateral damage that it is causing.
So that means it is on us to change the narrative in this country and to take control of the situation. On this episode of Gray Matters we discuss where we are at as country and while we didn't create the problem it is our responsibility to clean up the mess. The solutions is so close but yet so far away...but there is a solution in here. Michael & Bill think they laid out the road map that we all need to follow, the only thing you have to do is listen in and become part of the solution. Or write in to us to say why we are wrong and what we need to do instead but that is okay too.
Joining me in the studio as always is the ArmchairQb Billy Reed. You can listen to Gray Matters Radio exclusively on The Reporters Network airing every Monday.https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17145283Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:09:44 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineIt doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that America is hopelessly polarized right now. America is stuck in a bad marriage between Democrats and Republicans and they are putting the children (i.e. us) in the middle. As a result each side is so...It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that America is hopelessly polarized right now. America is stuck in a bad marriage between Democrats and Republicans and they are putting the children (i.e. us) in the middle. As a result each side is so dug in that they are waging a gang style war using rhetoric and division as their weapon of choice.
While their tactics are great for votes and ratings, the collateral damage to the country is painfully clear. How many families and friendships have been torn apart because of politics the past 6 years? How many people do you know have talked about how stressed, angry, & anxious they are about our current political climate?
If that wasn't bad enough, just this week we had two incidents where we had a US Coast Guard Officer planing a terrorist attack on liberal media personalities and politicians and we also had a college student beaten up at UC Berkley because they were recruiting for their college conservative group.
Things are not good and something bad is going to happen unless we take action now. So what exactly do we do about it? That is why I named this episode We the People...We The Problem...We The Solution. We can't be naieve and think we can just join hands and sing out way out of this. The thing that we have to realize is that we are all being taken advantage of by the political parties and allowing ourselves to be turned on each other. They are not going to change because what they are doing is working and they don't seem to really see or care about the collateral damage that it is causing.
So that means it is on us to change the narrative in this country and to take control of the situation. On this episode of Gray Matters we discuss where we are at as country and while we didn't create the problem it is our responsibility to clean up the mess. The solutions is so close but yet so far away...but there is a solution in here. Michael & Bill think they laid out the road map that we all need to follow, the only thing you have to do is listen in and become part of the solution. Or write in to us to say why we are wrong and what we need to do instead but that is okay too.
Joining me in the studio as always is the ArmchairQb Billy Reed. You can listen to Gray Matters Radio exclusively on The Reporters Network airing every Monday.4083media,politics,psychology,reform,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineIt doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that America is hopelessly polarized right now. America is stuck in a bad marriage between Democrats and Republicans and they are putting the children (i.e. us) in the middle. As a result each side is so dug in that they are waging a gang style war using rhetoric and division as their weapon of choice.
While their tactics are great for votes and ratings, the collateral damage to the country is painfully clear. How many families and friendships have been torn apart because of politics the past 6 years? How many people do you know have talked about how stressed, angry, & anxious they are about our current political climate?
If that wasn't bad enough, just this week we had two incidents where we had a US Coast Guard Officer planing a terrorist attack on liberal media personalities and politicians and we also had a college student beaten up at UC Berkley because they were recruiting for their college conservative group.
Things are not good and something bad is going to happen unless we take action now. So what exactly do we do about it? That is why I named this episode We the People...We The Problem...We The Solution. We can't be naieve and think we can just join hands and sing out way out of this. The thing that we have to realize is that we are all being taken advantage of by the political parties and allowing ourselves to be turned on each other. They are not going to change because what they are doing is working and they don't seem to really see or care about the collateral damage that it is causing.
So that means it is on us to change the narrative in this country and to take control of the situation. On this episode of Gray Matters we discuss where we are at as country and while we didn't create the problem it is our responsibility to clean up the mess. The solutions is so close but yet so far away...but there is a solution in here. Michael & Bill think they laid out the road map that we all need to follow, the only thing you have to do is listen in and become part of the solution. Or write in to us to say why we are wrong and what we need to do instead but that is okay too.
Joining me in the studio as always is the ArmchairQb Billy Reed. You can listen to Gray Matters Radio exclusively on The Reporters Network airing every Monday.NoGray Matters Radio Episode 22: Exposing The Systematic Flaws of The Mental Health & Addiction Industrieshttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-22-exposing-t_1For far too long, the short comings of our mental health and addiction industries were only talked about in the counselor's office. Usually it was a conversation with a parent discussion their frustration at insurance not approving treatment, them finding the right program but them not taking insurance and not being able to afford it, or them struggling to fund treatment again when it had previously failed multiple times over.
These conversations weren't just with clients, but counselors and other mental health professionals also quietly lamenting about their dissatisfaction with the treatment industry and often times the downright shady practices that many people in this industry are on a daily basis. So why is it that you are really only hearing about this right now? That is because most people complaining about it are people that actually work for a treatment facility or an insurance company and them speaking out against it means jeopardizing their career. Not only that, but many clinicians rly on referrals in this industry so by speaking out against them they are jeopardizing their own practices. Lastly, the fear that if clinicians start speaking out, particularly about the short comings and lack of effectiveness of the treatment industry, it would make people lose confidence in treatment and not seek it out. Well that and that if they speak out against how ineffective it really is they will dry up their revenue source which is a major no-no in business.
So as a result, nobody has really said anything but I think we can't sit idly by anymore. Despite all of the money we have thrown at substance abuse and suicide prevention, the rates keep going up and the access to care and affordability of care is getting worse along with it. In a nutshell, what we are doing to prevent it isn't working and our ways of treating it have not gotten any better. In good conscience I can't sit by anymore and not call out the obvious...which is our system is broken and we have to take a look in the mirror and ask ourselves what are we doing that is wrong and what do we have to do to fix it.
This episode is my attempt to start this conversation and to layout where the problems are and what are the suggestions that I have to fix it. While this article is sure to stoke some debate, I hope it makes us all look in the mirror and make some real changes. Joining me in the studio as always is my co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://api.spreaker.com/episode/17074117Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:36:59 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineFor far too long, the short comings of our mental health and addiction industries were only talked about in the counselor's office. Usually it was a conversation with a parent discussion their frustration at insurance not approving treatment, them...For far too long, the short comings of our mental health and addiction industries were only talked about in the counselor's office. Usually it was a conversation with a parent discussion their frustration at insurance not approving treatment, them finding the right program but them not taking insurance and not being able to afford it, or them struggling to fund treatment again when it had previously failed multiple times over.
These conversations weren't just with clients, but counselors and other mental health professionals also quietly lamenting about their dissatisfaction with the treatment industry and often times the downright shady practices that many people in this industry are on a daily basis. So why is it that you are really only hearing about this right now? That is because most people complaining about it are people that actually work for a treatment facility or an insurance company and them speaking out against it means jeopardizing their career. Not only that, but many clinicians rly on referrals in this industry so by speaking out against them they are jeopardizing their own practices. Lastly, the fear that if clinicians start speaking out, particularly about the short comings and lack of effectiveness of the treatment industry, it would make people lose confidence in treatment and not seek it out. Well that and that if they speak out against how ineffective it really is they will dry up their revenue source which is a major no-no in business.
So as a result, nobody has really said anything but I think we can't sit idly by anymore. Despite all of the money we have thrown at substance abuse and suicide prevention, the rates keep going up and the access to care and affordability of care is getting worse along with it. In a nutshell, what we are doing to prevent it isn't working and our ways of treating it have not gotten any better. In good conscience I can't sit by anymore and not call out the obvious...which is our system is broken and we have to take a look in the mirror and ask ourselves what are we doing that is wrong and what do we have to do to fix it.
This episode is my attempt to start this conversation and to layout where the problems are and what are the suggestions that I have to fix it. While this article is sure to stoke some debate, I hope it makes us all look in the mirror and make some real changes. Joining me in the studio as always is my co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4286addiction,politics,psychology,healthcare,mentalhealthcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineFor far too long, the short comings of our mental health and addiction industries were only talked about in the counselor's office. Usually it was a conversation with a parent discussion their frustration at insurance not approving treatment, them finding the right program but them not taking insurance and not being able to afford it, or them struggling to fund treatment again when it had previously failed multiple times over.
These conversations weren't just with clients, but counselors and other mental health professionals also quietly lamenting about their dissatisfaction with the treatment industry and often times the downright shady practices that many people in this industry are on a daily basis. So why is it that you are really only hearing about this right now? That is because most people complaining about it are people that actually work for a treatment facility or an insurance company and them speaking out against it means jeopardizing their career. Not only that, but many clinicians rly on referrals in this industry so by speaking out against them they are jeopardizing their own practices. Lastly, the fear that if clinicians start speaking out, particularly about the short comings and lack of effectiveness of the treatment industry, it would make people lose confidence in treatment and not seek it out. Well that and that if they speak out against how ineffective it really is they will dry up their revenue source which is a major no-no in business.
So as a result, nobody has really said anything but I think we can't sit idly by anymore. Despite all of the money we have thrown at substance abuse and suicide prevention, the rates keep going up and the access to care and affordability of care is getting worse along with it. In a nutshell, what we are doing to prevent it isn't working and our ways of treating it have not gotten any better. In good conscience I can't sit by anymore and not call out the obvious...which is our system is broken and we have to take a look in the mirror and ask ourselves what are we doing that is wrong and what do we have to do to fix it.
This episode is my attempt to start this conversation and to layout where the problems are and what are the suggestions that I have to fix it. While this article is sure to stoke some debate, I hope it makes us all look in the mirror and make some real changes. Joining me in the studio as always is my co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 21: We Do The Unthinkable & Talk To A Real Doctor To Find Out Why Healthcare Is Broken With Guest Dr. Eric Larsonhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-21-we-do-the-One of the things that gets under my skin more than anything is hearing politicians & media personalities talking about what is wrong with healthcare when they clearly have no idea what the hell they are talking about. They come up with solutions that are either too simplistic or radical with neither having any clue of working let alone getting passed. The problem that creates this issue is that too many clinicians or people who work in healthcare are too afraid to lose their job or lose clients if they come out and start speaking out publically about healthcare. In that vacuum the only voices we hear are people who don’t have a clue and/or are biased because they are getting paid by lobbyist to keep the system in chaos which ensures that things stay the same.
The only way any of this changes is if people who actually work in healthcare actually start speaking up and that is exactly what we are doing here at Gray Matters. In Part 2 of our 3 part series on healthcare we attempt to have a hard conversation about how hard it is to discuss having healt insurance but feeling like crap saying how bad yours sucks when so many people don’t have it at all. But the truth is that so many people with insurance pay incredibly high prices for their care, have insurance companies dictate what prescriptions you can take, and will have to take months to pay off your co-pay from surgeries or other procedures.
What happens when you have a doctor, counselor, retired hospital executive, and chemical company team lead on a podcast to talk about healthcare? You get all four of them saying their healthcare sucks and wondering if the only people who have good healthcare are the people in congress and millionaires…ironically the majority of people who are in congress and running our healthcare system. Joining us in the studio this week is special guest Dr. Eric Larson, M.D. who is the host of The Paradocs Podcast. Dr. Eric Larson is an anesthesiologist who is in private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a clinical assistant professor in anesthesiology at Michigan State University College of Medicine. He is the immediate past president of the Kent County Medical Society.
Also joining me in the studio as always is my co-host “The Arm Chair QB” Bill Reed owner of the armchairqb blog & our healthcare & political correspondant Richard “The Professor” DeVine. Tired of being lied to and having healthcare that sucks? Listen to this can’t miss episode of Gray Matters Radiohttps://api.spreaker.com/episode/17007575Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:00:05 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineOne of the things that gets under my skin more than anything is hearing politicians & media personalities talking about what is wrong with healthcare when they clearly have no idea what the hell they are talking about. They come up with solutions...One of the things that gets under my skin more than anything is hearing politicians & media personalities talking about what is wrong with healthcare when they clearly have no idea what the hell they are talking about. They come up with solutions that are either too simplistic or radical with neither having any clue of working let alone getting passed. The problem that creates this issue is that too many clinicians or people who work in healthcare are too afraid to lose their job or lose clients if they come out and start speaking out publically about healthcare. In that vacuum the only voices we hear are people who don’t have a clue and/or are biased because they are getting paid by lobbyist to keep the system in chaos which ensures that things stay the same.
The only way any of this changes is if people who actually work in healthcare actually start speaking up and that is exactly what we are doing here at Gray Matters. In Part 2 of our 3 part series on healthcare we attempt to have a hard conversation about how hard it is to discuss having healt insurance but feeling like crap saying how bad yours sucks when so many people don’t have it at all. But the truth is that so many people with insurance pay incredibly high prices for their care, have insurance companies dictate what prescriptions you can take, and will have to take months to pay off your co-pay from surgeries or other procedures.
What happens when you have a doctor, counselor, retired hospital executive, and chemical company team lead on a podcast to talk about healthcare? You get all four of them saying their healthcare sucks and wondering if the only people who have good healthcare are the people in congress and millionaires…ironically the majority of people who are in congress and running our healthcare system. Joining us in the studio this week is special guest Dr. Eric Larson, M.D. who is the host of The Paradocs Podcast. Dr. Eric Larson is an anesthesiologist who is in private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a clinical assistant professor in anesthesiology at Michigan State University College of Medicine. He is the immediate past president of the Kent County Medical Society.
Also joining me in the studio as always is my co-host “The Arm Chair QB” Bill Reed owner of the armchairqb blog & our healthcare & political correspondant Richard “The Professor” DeVine. Tired of being lied to and having healthcare that sucks? Listen to this can’t miss episode of Gray Matters Radio4789politics,psychology,healthcare,doctors,reformcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineOne of the things that gets under my skin more than anything is hearing politicians & media personalities talking about what is wrong with healthcare when they clearly have no idea what the hell they are talking about. They come up with solutions that are either too simplistic or radical with neither having any clue of working let alone getting passed. The problem that creates this issue is that too many clinicians or people who work in healthcare are too afraid to lose their job or lose clients if they come out and start speaking out publically about healthcare. In that vacuum the only voices we hear are people who don’t have a clue and/or are biased because they are getting paid by lobbyist to keep the system in chaos which ensures that things stay the same.
The only way any of this changes is if people who actually work in healthcare actually start speaking up and that is exactly what we are doing here at Gray Matters. In Part 2 of our 3 part series on healthcare we attempt to have a hard conversation about how hard it is to discuss having healt insurance but feeling like crap saying how bad yours sucks when so many people don’t have it at all. But the truth is that so many people with insurance pay incredibly high prices for their care, have insurance companies dictate what prescriptions you can take, and will have to take months to pay off your co-pay from surgeries or other procedures.
What happens when you have a doctor, counselor, retired hospital executive, and chemical company team lead on a podcast to talk about healthcare? You get all four of them saying their healthcare sucks and wondering if the only people who have good healthcare are the people in congress and millionaires…ironically the majority of people who are in congress and running our healthcare system. Joining us in the studio this week is special guest Dr. Eric Larson, M.D. who is the host of The Paradocs Podcast. Dr. Eric Larson is an anesthesiologist who is in private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a clinical assistant professor in anesthesiology at Michigan State University College of Medicine. He is the immediate past president of the Kent County Medical Society.
Also joining me in the studio as always is my co-host “The Arm Chair QB” Bill Reed owner of the armchairqb blog & our healthcare & political correspondant Richard “The Professor” DeVine. Tired of being lied to and having healthcare that sucks? Listen to this can’t miss episode of Gray Matters RadioNoGray Matters Radio Episode 20: Doctors Killing Patients Are Raising Questions But We Are Not Asking The Right Oneshttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-20-doctors-kiA Mount Carmel Hospital doctor has been making the national news this month but for all of the wrong the reasons. While the motives surrounding how a doctor might over-prescribe Fentanyl has not been discovered, the press has been all over the hospital system, asking how this could happen. Th local and national press have been asking the whodunit type tabloid click bait questions but there are ever bigger questions that nobody is asking and more important, nobody is connecting how what is going on at this hospital is actually just a symptom of a much bigger problem in our healthcare system across this country.
If we are truly going to have a debate about healthcare in this country then we need to actually look at what the real problems are and our elected officials have not been honest in explaining that to the public. If they would be honest, then we would all realize that none of their solutions work and that the only purpose of their rhetoric is to distract and divide us so the system stays the same. What are they distracting us from? They are distracting us from the fact that the power that doctors and the medical industrial complex have over healthcare system is one of the main problems with healthcare. It is what makes our healthcare so expensive and why our system is so broken and ironically makes up none of the national debate about what needs to be fixed. This episode kicks off with the Mount Carmel incident because at the core of the problems in our healthcare industry is the power that doctors have over hospitals and how greed plays a central role in their decision making…both the doctor and the hospital. It explains why they are able to get away with so much but also how it drops a huge financial burden on the system…i.e. me, you, tax payers, and our government.
While the press releases from hospitals across the country will lay out all of their plans to prevent abuses from happening and those programs might make us feel better but none of these solutions serve anything more than a band-aid for a bullet wound. The press is missing out on the real story and we are going to deliver it for you. To help explore this topic we welcome our regular healthcare correspondent Richard DeVine who served as the Chief Resource Officer and VP of Supply-Chain for the Mount Carmel hospital system as well as a healthcare supply-chain consultant with over 30 years of experience. If anybody will know the power of doctors and how their power affects the healthcare system it will be him.https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16943075Mon, 04 Feb 2019 13:00:17 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineA Mount Carmel Hospital doctor has been making the national news this month but for all of the wrong the reasons. While the motives surrounding how a doctor might over-prescribe Fentanyl has not been discovered, the press has been all over the...A Mount Carmel Hospital doctor has been making the national news this month but for all of the wrong the reasons. While the motives surrounding how a doctor might over-prescribe Fentanyl has not been discovered, the press has been all over the hospital system, asking how this could happen. Th local and national press have been asking the whodunit type tabloid click bait questions but there are ever bigger questions that nobody is asking and more important, nobody is connecting how what is going on at this hospital is actually just a symptom of a much bigger problem in our healthcare system across this country.
If we are truly going to have a debate about healthcare in this country then we need to actually look at what the real problems are and our elected officials have not been honest in explaining that to the public. If they would be honest, then we would all realize that none of their solutions work and that the only purpose of their rhetoric is to distract and divide us so the system stays the same. What are they distracting us from? They are distracting us from the fact that the power that doctors and the medical industrial complex have over healthcare system is one of the main problems with healthcare. It is what makes our healthcare so expensive and why our system is so broken and ironically makes up none of the national debate about what needs to be fixed. This episode kicks off with the Mount Carmel incident because at the core of the problems in our healthcare industry is the power that doctors have over hospitals and how greed plays a central role in their decision making…both the doctor and the hospital. It explains why they are able to get away with so much but also how it drops a huge financial burden on the system…i.e. me, you, tax payers, and our government.
While the press releases from hospitals across the country will lay out all of their plans to prevent abuses from happening and those programs might make us feel better but none of these solutions serve anything more than a band-aid for a bullet wound. The press is missing out on the real story and we are going to deliver it for you. To help explore this topic we welcome our regular healthcare correspondent Richard DeVine who served as the Chief Resource Officer and VP of Supply-Chain for the Mount Carmel hospital system as well as a healthcare supply-chain consultant with over 30 years of experience. If anybody will know the power of doctors and how their power affects the healthcare system it will be him.4104politics,medicine,psychology,healthcare,doctorscleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineA Mount Carmel Hospital doctor has been making the national news this month but for all of the wrong the reasons. While the motives surrounding how a doctor might over-prescribe Fentanyl has not been discovered, the press has been all over the hospital system, asking how this could happen. Th local and national press have been asking the whodunit type tabloid click bait questions but there are ever bigger questions that nobody is asking and more important, nobody is connecting how what is going on at this hospital is actually just a symptom of a much bigger problem in our healthcare system across this country.
If we are truly going to have a debate about healthcare in this country then we need to actually look at what the real problems are and our elected officials have not been honest in explaining that to the public. If they would be honest, then we would all realize that none of their solutions work and that the only purpose of their rhetoric is to distract and divide us so the system stays the same. What are they distracting us from? They are distracting us from the fact that the power that doctors and the medical industrial complex have over healthcare system is one of the main problems with healthcare. It is what makes our healthcare so expensive and why our system is so broken and ironically makes up none of the national debate about what needs to be fixed. This episode kicks off with the Mount Carmel incident because at the core of the problems in our healthcare industry is the power that doctors have over hospitals and how greed plays a central role in their decision making…both the doctor and the hospital. It explains why they are able to get away with so much but also how it drops a huge financial burden on the system…i.e. me, you, tax payers, and our government.
While the press releases from hospitals across the country will lay out all of their plans to prevent abuses from happening and those programs might make us feel better but none of these solutions serve anything more than a band-aid for a bullet wound. The press is missing out on the real story and we are going to deliver it for you. To help explore this topic we welcome our regular healthcare correspondent Richard DeVine who served as the Chief Resource Officer and VP of Supply-Chain for the Mount Carmel hospital system as well as a healthcare supply-chain consultant with over 30 years of experience. If anybody will know the power of doctors and how their power affects the healthcare system it will be him.NoGray Matters Radio Episode 19: The Shutdown Was The Canary In The Coal Minehttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-episode-19-the-canary-in-thMaybe it was a 30 plus day government shutdown, maybe it was our president claiming that 800,000 federal workers were Democrats, maybe it was Nancy Pelosi using a shutdown to play politics and refuse to negotiate, or maybe it was Wilber Ross saying that he didn’t understand why not receiving a paycheck for over a month would make people go to a foodbank. Whatever it was, this shutdown was clear evidence that our government is full of people who put party above country and have absolutely no idea what real Americans are going through.
I would say that the shutdown was the canary in the coal mine dying but that canary died years ago. In all reality the shutdown was a zombie canary that has died several times over and finally was beheaded like in The Walking Dead. But should we really be surprised that all of this is happening? What do we expect is going to happen when 50% of our government is made up of millionaires and Trumps team is made up of multi-millionaires and billionaires. We are talking about people who are so far removed from the reality that most Americans live in that instead of asking why don’t they get it we should be asking ourselves why are we surprised that they don’t get it?
To me it was like the public shift in how Americans viewed war before Vietnam and after Vietnam. It was the first war that Americans saw footage of war and the collateral damage that was being caused. Americans for the first time saw war for what it was and they couldn’t look at it in the same way and demanded change and an end to the war. It took seeing war for Americans to have a paradigm shift. It wasn’t that they didn’t care, it was that it was so far away that they just didn’t know.
I think what we are saying is that it isn’t that the wealthy don’t necessarily care, its that they are so far removed from the struggles of regular Americans that they don’t see the collateral damage of their policies and political games. They don’t see the problems that their tactics to get elected or their rhetoric creates. But that brings up the question of do they have the ability to represent us if they don’t understand us? I think that answer is resoundingly clear. Texas State Rep. John Bucy said it himself, that you can’t run for office if you are not wealthy because it doesn’t pay enough. The worse part is that they want it that way…which means the system is rigged to only elect wealthy people that largely have no ability to understand the average American.
Join us as we discuss this all too important topic and try to figure out who we want to be as a country and what we need to take the country back & elect people that actually have the ability to represent and understand us. Joining me in the studio as always is my co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org and we are also joined by our political correspondent Richard “The Professor” DeVine.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=353Tue, 29 Jan 2019 05:00:43 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineMaybe it was a 30 plus day government shutdown, maybe it was our president claiming that 800,000 federal workers were Democrats, maybe it was Nancy Pelosi using a shutdown to play politics and refuse to negotiate, or maybe it was Wilber Ross saying...Maybe it was a 30 plus day government shutdown, maybe it was our president claiming that 800,000 federal workers were Democrats, maybe it was Nancy Pelosi using a shutdown to play politics and refuse to negotiate, or maybe it was Wilber Ross saying that he didn’t understand why not receiving a paycheck for over a month would make people go to a foodbank. Whatever it was, this shutdown was clear evidence that our government is full of people who put party above country and have absolutely no idea what real Americans are going through.
I would say that the shutdown was the canary in the coal mine dying but that canary died years ago. In all reality the shutdown was a zombie canary that has died several times over and finally was beheaded like in The Walking Dead. But should we really be surprised that all of this is happening? What do we expect is going to happen when 50% of our government is made up of millionaires and Trumps team is made up of multi-millionaires and billionaires. We are talking about people who are so far removed from the reality that most Americans live in that instead of asking why don’t they get it we should be asking ourselves why are we surprised that they don’t get it?
To me it was like the public shift in how Americans viewed war before Vietnam and after Vietnam. It was the first war that Americans saw footage of war and the collateral damage that was being caused. Americans for the first time saw war for what it was and they couldn’t look at it in the same way and demanded change and an end to the war. It took seeing war for Americans to have a paradigm shift. It wasn’t that they didn’t care, it was that it was so far away that they just didn’t know.
I think what we are saying is that it isn’t that the wealthy don’t necessarily care, its that they are so far removed from the struggles of regular Americans that they don’t see the collateral damage of their policies and political games. They don’t see the problems that their tactics to get elected or their rhetoric creates. But that brings up the question of do they have the ability to represent us if they don’t understand us? I think that answer is resoundingly clear. Texas State Rep. John Bucy said it himself, that you can’t run for office if you are not wealthy because it doesn’t pay enough. The worse part is that they want it that way…which means the system is rigged to only elect wealthy people that largely have no ability to understand the average American.
Join us as we discuss this all too important topic and try to figure out who we want to be as a country and what we need to take the country back & elect people that actually have the ability to represent and understand us. Joining me in the studio as always is my co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org and we are also joined by our political correspondent Richard “The Professor” DeVine.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4255news,media,politics,psychology,independant,counseling,republicans,democrats,congress,sociology,compromise,shutdown,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineMaybe it was a 30 plus day government shutdown, maybe it was our president claiming that 800,000 federal workers were Democrats, maybe it was Nancy Pelosi using a shutdown to play politics and refuse to negotiate, or maybe it was Wilber Ross saying that he didn’t understand why not receiving a paycheck for over a month would make people go to a foodbank. Whatever it was, this shutdown was clear evidence that our government is full of people who put party above country and have absolutely no idea what real Americans are going through.
I would say that the shutdown was the canary in the coal mine dying but that canary died years ago. In all reality the shutdown was a zombie canary that has died several times over and finally was beheaded like in The Walking Dead. But should we really be surprised that all of this is happening? What do we expect is going to happen when 50% of our government is made up of millionaires and Trumps team is made up of multi-millionaires and billionaires. We are talking about people who are so far removed from the reality that most Americans live in that instead of asking why don’t they get it we should be asking ourselves why are we surprised that they don’t get it?
To me it was like the public shift in how Americans viewed war before Vietnam and after Vietnam. It was the first war that Americans saw footage of war and the collateral damage that was being caused. Americans for the first time saw war for what it was and they couldn’t look at it in the same way and demanded change and an end to the war. It took seeing war for Americans to have a paradigm shift. It wasn’t that they didn’t care, it was that it was so far away that they just didn’t know.
I think what we are saying is that it isn’t that the wealthy don’t necessarily care, its that they are so far removed from the struggles of regular Americans that they don’t see the collateral damage of their policies and political games. They don’t see the problems that their tactics to get elected or their rhetoric creates. But that brings up the question of do they have the ability to represent us if they don’t understand us? I think that answer is resoundingly clear. Texas State Rep. John Bucy said it himself, that you can’t run for office if you are not wealthy because it doesn’t pay enough. The worse part is that they want it that way…which means the system is rigged to only elect wealthy people that largely have no ability to understand the average American.
Join us as we discuss this all too important topic and try to figure out who we want to be as a country and what we need to take the country back & elect people that actually have the ability to represent and understand us. Joining me in the studio as always is my co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org and we are also joined by our political correspondent Richard “The Professor” DeVine.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 18: Meet The Most Disturbing & Least Discussed Drug Addict…The Pregnant Motherhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-18-meet-the-mOne of the things that has really bothered me about this whole border wall induced government shutdown…besides the actual shutdown…is the fact that we are shutting down the government and making immigration out to be the gravest threat to our existence when other much more grave threats are going on right now and nobody is talking about them.
We have discussed the issue of substance abuse a lot on this show but I wanted to hit the growing issue of the rash of pregnant mothers who are struggling with addiction. What makes this problem even worse is that nobody is really talking about it. What is even worse is that I knew that I would have to get peoples attention in other ways to care about this topic besides the awful details of what it is like for a baby to be born with NAS or Neo-natal Abstinence Syndrome. The numbers of children being born with NAS have quintupled in the last 5 years.
So why would anybody care about this besides the obvious and how does this relate to the government shutdown? Well, Medicaid covers roughly 51% of all child-births in this country and guess what, 81% of babies born with NAS is paid for by Medicaid. To put it in perspective the average cost of a Medicaid childbirth is $3500 where an NAS child costs $66,000 on average to Medicaid. The costs don’t end there, most of these kids will stay in the system and usually have IQ deficiencies, mental illness, learning disabilities, neurological problems, etc. for the rest of their lives which requires continued care from Medicaid and eventually Medicare or Social Security Disability.
The Medicaid total budget for 2015 was $535 Billion dollars with almost $200 Billion of that going towards long term care of people with IQ deficiencies, mental illness, learning disabilities, and neurological/medical problems. You don’t have to be an accountant to realize my point here…this problem is literally bankrupting our budget and while we haggle over $5 Billion for a wall we should be talking about how to do more to solve these issues rather then cut the budgets and hope it works. What is the real threat to the average American…a immigrant criminal or drug addiction? What is robbing our country more, illegal immigrants or drug addicts and their drug addicted children?
Our focus is in the wrong place and we need a reality check here! To help me discuss this issue I am joined as always by my good friend and co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org and this week we welcome into the studio a nurse with 13 years experience in woman’s services & neo-natal intensive care nursing. Because of the sensitivity of the subject and her current job our guest would only come on the show under condition of anonymity so we shall just call her Nurse Jane.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=328Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:00:38 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineOne of the things that has really bothered me about this whole border wall induced government shutdown…besides the actual shutdown…is the fact that we are shutting down the government and making immigration out to be the gravest threat to our...One of the things that has really bothered me about this whole border wall induced government shutdown…besides the actual shutdown…is the fact that we are shutting down the government and making immigration out to be the gravest threat to our existence when other much more grave threats are going on right now and nobody is talking about them.
We have discussed the issue of substance abuse a lot on this show but I wanted to hit the growing issue of the rash of pregnant mothers who are struggling with addiction. What makes this problem even worse is that nobody is really talking about it. What is even worse is that I knew that I would have to get peoples attention in other ways to care about this topic besides the awful details of what it is like for a baby to be born with NAS or Neo-natal Abstinence Syndrome. The numbers of children being born with NAS have quintupled in the last 5 years.
So why would anybody care about this besides the obvious and how does this relate to the government shutdown? Well, Medicaid covers roughly 51% of all child-births in this country and guess what, 81% of babies born with NAS is paid for by Medicaid. To put it in perspective the average cost of a Medicaid childbirth is $3500 where an NAS child costs $66,000 on average to Medicaid. The costs don’t end there, most of these kids will stay in the system and usually have IQ deficiencies, mental illness, learning disabilities, neurological problems, etc. for the rest of their lives which requires continued care from Medicaid and eventually Medicare or Social Security Disability.
The Medicaid total budget for 2015 was $535 Billion dollars with almost $200 Billion of that going towards long term care of people with IQ deficiencies, mental illness, learning disabilities, and neurological/medical problems. You don’t have to be an accountant to realize my point here…this problem is literally bankrupting our budget and while we haggle over $5 Billion for a wall we should be talking about how to do more to solve these issues rather then cut the budgets and hope it works. What is the real threat to the average American…a immigrant criminal or drug addiction? What is robbing our country more, illegal immigrants or drug addicts and their drug addicted children?
Our focus is in the wrong place and we need a reality check here! To help me discuss this issue I am joined as always by my good friend and co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org and this week we welcome into the studio a nurse with 13 years experience in woman’s services & neo-natal intensive care nursing. Because of the sensitivity of the subject and her current job our guest would only come on the show under condition of anonymity so we shall just call her Nurse Jane.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com3710news,podcast,media,addiction,drugs,politics,psychology,treatment,republicans,democrats,sociology,compromise,independents,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineOne of the things that has really bothered me about this whole border wall induced government shutdown…besides the actual shutdown…is the fact that we are shutting down the government and making immigration out to be the gravest threat to our existence when other much more grave threats are going on right now and nobody is talking about them.
We have discussed the issue of substance abuse a lot on this show but I wanted to hit the growing issue of the rash of pregnant mothers who are struggling with addiction. What makes this problem even worse is that nobody is really talking about it. What is even worse is that I knew that I would have to get peoples attention in other ways to care about this topic besides the awful details of what it is like for a baby to be born with NAS or Neo-natal Abstinence Syndrome. The numbers of children being born with NAS have quintupled in the last 5 years.
So why would anybody care about this besides the obvious and how does this relate to the government shutdown? Well, Medicaid covers roughly 51% of all child-births in this country and guess what, 81% of babies born with NAS is paid for by Medicaid. To put it in perspective the average cost of a Medicaid childbirth is $3500 where an NAS child costs $66,000 on average to Medicaid. The costs don’t end there, most of these kids will stay in the system and usually have IQ deficiencies, mental illness, learning disabilities, neurological problems, etc. for the rest of their lives which requires continued care from Medicaid and eventually Medicare or Social Security Disability.
The Medicaid total budget for 2015 was $535 Billion dollars with almost $200 Billion of that going towards long term care of people with IQ deficiencies, mental illness, learning disabilities, and neurological/medical problems. You don’t have to be an accountant to realize my point here…this problem is literally bankrupting our budget and while we haggle over $5 Billion for a wall we should be talking about how to do more to solve these issues rather then cut the budgets and hope it works. What is the real threat to the average American…a immigrant criminal or drug addiction? What is robbing our country more, illegal immigrants or drug addicts and their drug addicted children?
Our focus is in the wrong place and we need a reality check here! To help me discuss this issue I am joined as always by my good friend and co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org and this week we welcome into the studio a nurse with 13 years experience in woman’s services & neo-natal intensive care nursing. Because of the sensitivity of the subject and her current job our guest would only come on the show under condition of anonymity so we shall just call her Nurse Jane.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 17: So You Want To Start A Centrist 3rd Party? Special Guest Solomon Kleinsmith of Uniters.orghttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-17-so-you-wanIf there is one thing that we can agree upon as Americans, it would be that our country is so hopelessly polarized that we can’t even pass a budget anymore without shutting the government down. Instead of doing what is best for the country our politicians are doing what is best for their party at the expense of real Americans. I guess that is what we deserve…allowing ourselves to elect millionaires who have zero clue what it is like to struggle or live paycheck to paycheck.
We should have seen this coming, but like a frog in boiling water we didn’t see it until it was too late. So the question is what do we do about it? The obvious answer is to throw all these bums out but even if we did that, the cancer (i.e. lobbyist, dark money groups, etc.) is still there and would infect even the most idealistic democratic or republican candidates. So maybe we need to have a real discussion of whether it is time to have a legitimate centrist 3rd political party?
The reality is that it’s great in theory but if it were easy to do it would have been done already. That is where tonight’s guest Solomon Kleinsmith of Uniters.org comes in. Join us tonight 7:00est as we dive into the realities of starting a centrist 3rd political party and the reasons why it has to exist but also the challenge of getting there. The short answer…its fucking tough but if we have patience it can happen. So if you obviously don’t want to miss tonight’s episode because the future of our country is at stake and by missing our show you don’t get the plan on how to save it….no pressure at all.
Joining me as always in the studio is Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org blog where he keeps me in line and makes sure I keep the show nicely situated in the gray.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=309Mon, 14 Jan 2019 05:33:08 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineIf there is one thing that we can agree upon as Americans, it would be that our country is so hopelessly polarized that we can’t even pass a budget anymore without shutting the government down. Instead of doing what is best for the country our...If there is one thing that we can agree upon as Americans, it would be that our country is so hopelessly polarized that we can’t even pass a budget anymore without shutting the government down. Instead of doing what is best for the country our politicians are doing what is best for their party at the expense of real Americans. I guess that is what we deserve…allowing ourselves to elect millionaires who have zero clue what it is like to struggle or live paycheck to paycheck.
We should have seen this coming, but like a frog in boiling water we didn’t see it until it was too late. So the question is what do we do about it? The obvious answer is to throw all these bums out but even if we did that, the cancer (i.e. lobbyist, dark money groups, etc.) is still there and would infect even the most idealistic democratic or republican candidates. So maybe we need to have a real discussion of whether it is time to have a legitimate centrist 3rd political party?
The reality is that it’s great in theory but if it were easy to do it would have been done already. That is where tonight’s guest Solomon Kleinsmith of Uniters.org comes in. Join us tonight 7:00est as we dive into the realities of starting a centrist 3rd political party and the reasons why it has to exist but also the challenge of getting there. The short answer…its fucking tough but if we have patience it can happen. So if you obviously don’t want to miss tonight’s episode because the future of our country is at stake and by missing our show you don’t get the plan on how to save it….no pressure at all.
Joining me as always in the studio is Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org blog where he keeps me in line and makes sure I keep the show nicely situated in the gray.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4038news,podcast,media,politics,psychology,republicans,democrats,sociology,compromise,independents,centrist,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineIf there is one thing that we can agree upon as Americans, it would be that our country is so hopelessly polarized that we can’t even pass a budget anymore without shutting the government down. Instead of doing what is best for the country our politicians are doing what is best for their party at the expense of real Americans. I guess that is what we deserve…allowing ourselves to elect millionaires who have zero clue what it is like to struggle or live paycheck to paycheck.
We should have seen this coming, but like a frog in boiling water we didn’t see it until it was too late. So the question is what do we do about it? The obvious answer is to throw all these bums out but even if we did that, the cancer (i.e. lobbyist, dark money groups, etc.) is still there and would infect even the most idealistic democratic or republican candidates. So maybe we need to have a real discussion of whether it is time to have a legitimate centrist 3rd political party?
The reality is that it’s great in theory but if it were easy to do it would have been done already. That is where tonight’s guest Solomon Kleinsmith of Uniters.org comes in. Join us tonight 7:00est as we dive into the realities of starting a centrist 3rd political party and the reasons why it has to exist but also the challenge of getting there. The short answer…its fucking tough but if we have patience it can happen. So if you obviously don’t want to miss tonight’s episode because the future of our country is at stake and by missing our show you don’t get the plan on how to save it….no pressure at all.
Joining me as always in the studio is Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org blog where he keeps me in line and makes sure I keep the show nicely situated in the gray.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 16: Is The Border Wall The Most Pressing Need In America?https://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-16-is-the-borI know this week’s episode is going to raise some debate but if The Gray didn’t take on the responsibility to discuss it then we shouldn’t even be on the air to begin with. For this week’s episode we take on the border wall and decide whether a border wall is the most pressing need in America and whether Trump was right to shut down the government in order to get it. As always we veer far off course in our discussion but always end up exactly where we need to in order to have the discussion that needed to be had on this topic.
Before listening to the show the one question that I want everyone to ask themselves is what are the things that they worry about the most in their lives and the lives of their family members. Not what the media tells you but what you personally worry about the most and why you have that concern. That answer will serve as the basis for our show and our exploration into whether the wall should be built or more specifically when the wall should be built.
This is a hot button issue that will surely strike a chord in all of our listeners but I think regardless of what side of the debate you are on, you will like where me and my guests go with the discussion and walk away with some great insight as to where we go from here as a country. To help me dive into this topic I am joined as always by my co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the ArmchairQB. & our good friend of 30 years who we only know by the name of Fro. We would ask what his full name is but after 30 years I think it is kind of rude to admit to someone that you don’t know what their real name is.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=294Mon, 07 Jan 2019 05:25:09 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineI know this week’s episode is going to raise some debate but if The Gray didn’t take on the responsibility to discuss it then we shouldn’t even be on the air to begin with. For this week’s episode we take on the border wall and decide whether a border...I know this week’s episode is going to raise some debate but if The Gray didn’t take on the responsibility to discuss it then we shouldn’t even be on the air to begin with. For this week’s episode we take on the border wall and decide whether a border wall is the most pressing need in America and whether Trump was right to shut down the government in order to get it. As always we veer far off course in our discussion but always end up exactly where we need to in order to have the discussion that needed to be had on this topic.
Before listening to the show the one question that I want everyone to ask themselves is what are the things that they worry about the most in their lives and the lives of their family members. Not what the media tells you but what you personally worry about the most and why you have that concern. That answer will serve as the basis for our show and our exploration into whether the wall should be built or more specifically when the wall should be built.
This is a hot button issue that will surely strike a chord in all of our listeners but I think regardless of what side of the debate you are on, you will like where me and my guests go with the discussion and walk away with some great insight as to where we go from here as a country. To help me dive into this topic I am joined as always by my co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the ArmchairQB. & our good friend of 30 years who we only know by the name of Fro. We would ask what his full name is but after 30 years I think it is kind of rude to admit to someone that you don’t know what their real name is.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4219news,podcast,mexico,media,politics,psychology,trump,immigration,republicans,democrats,sociology,compromise,independents,shutdown,borderwall,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineI know this week’s episode is going to raise some debate but if The Gray didn’t take on the responsibility to discuss it then we shouldn’t even be on the air to begin with. For this week’s episode we take on the border wall and decide whether a border wall is the most pressing need in America and whether Trump was right to shut down the government in order to get it. As always we veer far off course in our discussion but always end up exactly where we need to in order to have the discussion that needed to be had on this topic.
Before listening to the show the one question that I want everyone to ask themselves is what are the things that they worry about the most in their lives and the lives of their family members. Not what the media tells you but what you personally worry about the most and why you have that concern. That answer will serve as the basis for our show and our exploration into whether the wall should be built or more specifically when the wall should be built.
This is a hot button issue that will surely strike a chord in all of our listeners but I think regardless of what side of the debate you are on, you will like where me and my guests go with the discussion and walk away with some great insight as to where we go from here as a country. To help me dive into this topic I am joined as always by my co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the ArmchairQB. & our good friend of 30 years who we only know by the name of Fro. We would ask what his full name is but after 30 years I think it is kind of rude to admit to someone that you don’t know what their real name is.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 15: The Gang Tackles Gen. Mattis, John Kelly, & Middle-East Policy For New Year’shttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-15-the-gang-tDamn, here I thought we would take the Christmas week off from our show and would be able to do a nice fun New Year’s show but apparently this administration can’t take a break for the holiday. Literally so much happened over the Christmas break that we couldn’t even get to everything that happened in one show.
For our New Year’s episode, we decided to catch up on the weeks news and tackle the General Mattis resignation, John Kelly firing, and explore whether Trump’s decision to pull our troops out of Syria and Afghanistan was a good idea. Naturally if we were going to explore middle-east military strategy and history we needed to bring in our resident history correspondent Richard “The Professor” DeVine to keep our facts straight. As always, I am accompanied by my trusty co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of “The Arm Chair Quarterback” to keep me sane and on task.
So while you are cleaning your house for your New Year’s Eve party or just getting ready to go out, tell Alexa or Siri to put on Gray Matters Radio in the background and start 2019 out the right way…in The Gray.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=282Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:05:28 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineDamn, here I thought we would take the Christmas week off from our show and would be able to do a nice fun New Year’s show but apparently this administration can’t take a break for the holiday. Literally so much happened over the Christmas break that...Damn, here I thought we would take the Christmas week off from our show and would be able to do a nice fun New Year’s show but apparently this administration can’t take a break for the holiday. Literally so much happened over the Christmas break that we couldn’t even get to everything that happened in one show.
For our New Year’s episode, we decided to catch up on the weeks news and tackle the General Mattis resignation, John Kelly firing, and explore whether Trump’s decision to pull our troops out of Syria and Afghanistan was a good idea. Naturally if we were going to explore middle-east military strategy and history we needed to bring in our resident history correspondent Richard “The Professor” DeVine to keep our facts straight. As always, I am accompanied by my trusty co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of “The Arm Chair Quarterback” to keep me sane and on task.
So while you are cleaning your house for your New Year’s Eve party or just getting ready to go out, tell Alexa or Siri to put on Gray Matters Radio in the background and start 2019 out the right way…in The Gray.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4493news,podcast,media,military,politics,psychology,republicans,democrats,foreign,policy,sociology,compromise,independents,middleeast,polarization,johnkellycleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineDamn, here I thought we would take the Christmas week off from our show and would be able to do a nice fun New Year’s show but apparently this administration can’t take a break for the holiday. Literally so much happened over the Christmas break that we couldn’t even get to everything that happened in one show.
For our New Year’s episode, we decided to catch up on the weeks news and tackle the General Mattis resignation, John Kelly firing, and explore whether Trump’s decision to pull our troops out of Syria and Afghanistan was a good idea. Naturally if we were going to explore middle-east military strategy and history we needed to bring in our resident history correspondent Richard “The Professor” DeVine to keep our facts straight. As always, I am accompanied by my trusty co-host Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of “The Arm Chair Quarterback” to keep me sane and on task.
So while you are cleaning your house for your New Year’s Eve party or just getting ready to go out, tell Alexa or Siri to put on Gray Matters Radio in the background and start 2019 out the right way…in The Gray.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 14: It’s Not Just Autism Awareness, It’s Autism Treatment Affordability Awareness W/ Special Guests Bill Reed andhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-14-it-s-not-jAs a counselor who has worked with families and clients on the Autism Spectrum for over 18 years, I have seen it go from a disorder that people have no clue what it is to almost every person knowing at least one person they are close to having it or being affected by it. One would think seeing the Autism rates jumping from 1/10,000 in 2000 to 1/59 in 2018 would make voters demand their politicians take action in making sure every American has access to quality treatment…but I guess most of us didn’t get the message and instead are too pre-occupied with border walls and whether Donald Trump is a racist.
The sad truth is that while people privately will express concern about autism and whether their child will be born with it, politically we seem to get caught up in the tabloid BS that out media and politicians are peddling. The sad truth is that quality early intervention therapy can cost upwards of $60,000 a year and much of that is not covered by your insurance and partially covered by your state Medicaid programs. Schools have an additional cost of $18,000 per student per year who are on the spectrum and if they already are short staffed now when the autism rates were 1/500, imagine what it will be like in 10 years when babies born today at the 1/59 rate enter the school system. If you aren’t scared yet, most coverage only covers to age 7, and ask any parents of a child on the spectrum what it is like having a teenager on the spectrum and see what the costs for therapy, tutoring or even worse a private therapeutic school that will cost upwards of $50,000 a year.
What about the adult autistic children who will need care much beyond the college years? How does that work on a fixed retirement income? You can try an long term care community but places like 29 Acres in Texas are charging $60,000 per year for long term care. The truth is that not only is our government totally neglecting this important issue, they have no idea how in trouble school districts will be in a few years or how much the social security disability budget is going to explode. How do I know? Because I help my clients on the spectrum in their 20’s get on SSDI and sometimes its the only way to help them and their parents support their children for basic needs like rent.
We have a huge problem on our hands and to make matter worse we have private clinicians and organizations completely taking advantage of the situation and gouging families for insane costs. They have basically made it to where there is tiered care for autistic clients and their families where only the wealthy can get the care that is needed. The schools and programs pat themselves on the backs and have elaborate galas and fundraisers where they pat themselves on the backs for offering free or discounted tuition for a few clients while 85% of their clients/residents are wealthy individuals who pay fill rate and they make a killing, often opening up multiple locations across the country. Where is our government in policing this matter? They step in during hurricane emergencies to make sure no one is price gouging during an emergency so why aren’t they stepping up here? We talk about curing autism now but what about treating autism now? Oh wait that’s right….it’s treating autism now for the rich. I just don’t know how these people sleep at night…very comfortably I suppose.
To dive into this topic I am joined by my good friend Bill Reed of the Arm Chair QB Blog and Ginger the Female Voice of The Radical Center. Join us 12/17/2018 at 7:00est/6:00cst in our quest to bring this important topic to light and help us force our elected officials to actually do something for the people that elected them and prioritize the right things.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=276Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:13:10 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineAs a counselor who has worked with families and clients on the Autism Spectrum for over 18 years, I have seen it go from a disorder that people have no clue what it is to almost every person knowing at least one person they are close to having it or...As a counselor who has worked with families and clients on the Autism Spectrum for over 18 years, I have seen it go from a disorder that people have no clue what it is to almost every person knowing at least one person they are close to having it or being affected by it. One would think seeing the Autism rates jumping from 1/10,000 in 2000 to 1/59 in 2018 would make voters demand their politicians take action in making sure every American has access to quality treatment…but I guess most of us didn’t get the message and instead are too pre-occupied with border walls and whether Donald Trump is a racist.
The sad truth is that while people privately will express concern about autism and whether their child will be born with it, politically we seem to get caught up in the tabloid BS that out media and politicians are peddling. The sad truth is that quality early intervention therapy can cost upwards of $60,000 a year and much of that is not covered by your insurance and partially covered by your state Medicaid programs. Schools have an additional cost of $18,000 per student per year who are on the spectrum and if they already are short staffed now when the autism rates were 1/500, imagine what it will be like in 10 years when babies born today at the 1/59 rate enter the school system. If you aren’t scared yet, most coverage only covers to age 7, and ask any parents of a child on the spectrum what it is like having a teenager on the spectrum and see what the costs for therapy, tutoring or even worse a private therapeutic school that will cost upwards of $50,000 a year.
What about the adult autistic children who will need care much beyond the college years? How does that work on a fixed retirement income? You can try an long term care community but places like 29 Acres in Texas are charging $60,000 per year for long term care. The truth is that not only is our government totally neglecting this important issue, they have no idea how in trouble school districts will be in a few years or how much the social security disability budget is going to explode. How do I know? Because I help my clients on the spectrum in their 20’s get on SSDI and sometimes its the only way to help them and their parents support their children for basic needs like rent.
We have a huge problem on our hands and to make matter worse we have private clinicians and organizations completely taking advantage of the situation and gouging families for insane costs. They have basically made it to where there is tiered care for autistic clients and their families where only the wealthy can get the care that is needed. The schools and programs pat themselves on the backs and have elaborate galas and fundraisers where they pat themselves on the backs for offering free or discounted tuition for a few clients while 85% of their clients/residents are wealthy individuals who pay fill rate and they make a killing, often opening up multiple locations across the country. Where is our government in policing this matter? They step in during hurricane emergencies to make sure no one is price gouging during an emergency so why aren’t they stepping up here? We talk about curing autism now but what about treating autism now? Oh wait that’s right….it’s treating autism now for the rich. I just don’t know how these people sleep at night…very comfortably I suppose.
To dive into this topic I am joined by my good friend Bill Reed of the Arm Chair QB Blog and Ginger the Female Voice of The Radical Center. Join us 12/17/2018 at 7:00est/6:00cst in our quest to bring this important topic to light and help us force our elected officials to actually do something for the people that elected them and prioritize the right things.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4288news,podcast,media,politics,psychology,treatment,republicans,democrats,aspergers,parents,autism,sociology,compromise,independents,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineAs a counselor who has worked with families and clients on the Autism Spectrum for over 18 years, I have seen it go from a disorder that people have no clue what it is to almost every person knowing at least one person they are close to having it or being affected by it. One would think seeing the Autism rates jumping from 1/10,000 in 2000 to 1/59 in 2018 would make voters demand their politicians take action in making sure every American has access to quality treatment…but I guess most of us didn’t get the message and instead are too pre-occupied with border walls and whether Donald Trump is a racist.
The sad truth is that while people privately will express concern about autism and whether their child will be born with it, politically we seem to get caught up in the tabloid BS that out media and politicians are peddling. The sad truth is that quality early intervention therapy can cost upwards of $60,000 a year and much of that is not covered by your insurance and partially covered by your state Medicaid programs. Schools have an additional cost of $18,000 per student per year who are on the spectrum and if they already are short staffed now when the autism rates were 1/500, imagine what it will be like in 10 years when babies born today at the 1/59 rate enter the school system. If you aren’t scared yet, most coverage only covers to age 7, and ask any parents of a child on the spectrum what it is like having a teenager on the spectrum and see what the costs for therapy, tutoring or even worse a private therapeutic school that will cost upwards of $50,000 a year.
What about the adult autistic children who will need care much beyond the college years? How does that work on a fixed retirement income? You can try an long term care community but places like 29 Acres in Texas are charging $60,000 per year for long term care. The truth is that not only is our government totally neglecting this important issue, they have no idea how in trouble school districts will be in a few years or how much the social security disability budget is going to explode. How do I know? Because I help my clients on the spectrum in their 20’s get on SSDI and sometimes its the only way to help them and their parents support their children for basic needs like rent.
We have a huge problem on our hands and to make matter worse we have private clinicians and organizations completely taking advantage of the situation and gouging families for insane costs. They have basically made it to where there is tiered care for autistic clients and their families where only the wealthy can get the care that is needed. The schools and programs pat themselves on the backs and have elaborate galas and fundraisers where they pat themselves on the backs for offering free or discounted tuition for a few clients while 85% of their clients/residents are wealthy individuals who pay fill rate and they make a killing, often opening up multiple locations across the country. Where is our government in policing this matter? They step in during hurricane emergencies to make sure no one is price gouging during an emergency so why aren’t they stepping up here? We talk about curing autism now but what about treating autism now? Oh wait that’s right….it’s treating autism now for the rich. I just don’t know how these people sleep at night…very comfortably I suppose.
To dive into this topic I am joined by my good friend Bill Reed of the Arm Chair QB Blog and Ginger the Female Voice of The Radical Center. Join us 12/17/2018 at 7:00est/6:00cst in our quest to bring this important topic to light and help us force our elected officials to actually do something for the people that elected them and prioritize the right things.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 13: What Is A Bigger Danger To Your Family: Illegal Immigrants, Suicide, or Drug Abuse?https://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-13-what-is-a-As a counselor, I have a unique perspective on the world. I have this perspective because I get to talk to people from every walk of life, political party, socio-economic status, religion, etc. I would argue that no other profession has a better feel for the heart beat of a nation than counselors. Our only goal is to help so people have a tendency to be honest with us and check all of the BS out of the door.
What I hear people talking about is not fear of illegal immigrants, terrorism. or globalism but rather fear of their children getting addicted to drugs, being depressed and committing suicide, getting bullied, fear of the influence of the internet, being taken advantage of by sexual predators, etc. That is what people worry about and who would blame them? Every year suicide & drug abuse rates go up and despite new awareness and money going towards these programs the numbers keep rising.
Just look at these statistics, according to the CDC suicide rates are growing at their highest rates and in 2016 alone 46,000 Americans age 10 or older committed suicide. That is not including the rash of well publicized cases of under 10 year-olds committing suicide due to bullying. A NSDUH drug abuse study found that over 21.5 million Americans ages 12 and older are struggling with addiction with the CDC reporting 72,000 Americans dying from drug overdoses in 2017 with 2018 trending to top that number. One would think that the news would be covering this non-stop but the problem is that the political rhetoric of border safety, globalism, democrats, republicans, etc. sucks all the air out of the room. They are talking about theoretical consequences of these problems while very real people are dying every year and at increasing numbers.
Why is this not a bigger issue? Maybe its because we think because we hear something about a billion dollars being spent on a program that we are absolved from worrying but guess what? If those programs would work they would have by now. Putting more money in a program like this, is like flapping your arms harder and hoping to fly. We have a huge problem in this country and the media and politicians are distracting us from what we really talk about in private what worry us and its time we change the conversation to the very real threats now. We need to do border security but damn it guys, I want to have a conversation about what really might hurt my 4 year-old daughter in the future and its not some illegal immigrant.
To help me with this discussion, I am going to be joined by our good friend Ron the Opinionated Veteran to help us discuss this all too important topic airing
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=272Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:17:31 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineAs a counselor, I have a unique perspective on the world. I have this perspective because I get to talk to people from every walk of life, political party, socio-economic status, religion, etc. I would argue that no other profession has a better feel...As a counselor, I have a unique perspective on the world. I have this perspective because I get to talk to people from every walk of life, political party, socio-economic status, religion, etc. I would argue that no other profession has a better feel for the heart beat of a nation than counselors. Our only goal is to help so people have a tendency to be honest with us and check all of the BS out of the door.
What I hear people talking about is not fear of illegal immigrants, terrorism. or globalism but rather fear of their children getting addicted to drugs, being depressed and committing suicide, getting bullied, fear of the influence of the internet, being taken advantage of by sexual predators, etc. That is what people worry about and who would blame them? Every year suicide & drug abuse rates go up and despite new awareness and money going towards these programs the numbers keep rising.
Just look at these statistics, according to the CDC suicide rates are growing at their highest rates and in 2016 alone 46,000 Americans age 10 or older committed suicide. That is not including the rash of well publicized cases of under 10 year-olds committing suicide due to bullying. A NSDUH drug abuse study found that over 21.5 million Americans ages 12 and older are struggling with addiction with the CDC reporting 72,000 Americans dying from drug overdoses in 2017 with 2018 trending to top that number. One would think that the news would be covering this non-stop but the problem is that the political rhetoric of border safety, globalism, democrats, republicans, etc. sucks all the air out of the room. They are talking about theoretical consequences of these problems while very real people are dying every year and at increasing numbers.
Why is this not a bigger issue? Maybe its because we think because we hear something about a billion dollars being spent on a program that we are absolved from worrying but guess what? If those programs would work they would have by now. Putting more money in a program like this, is like flapping your arms harder and hoping to fly. We have a huge problem in this country and the media and politicians are distracting us from what we really talk about in private what worry us and its time we change the conversation to the very real threats now. We need to do border security but damn it guys, I want to have a conversation about what really might hurt my 4 year-old daughter in the future and its not some illegal immigrant.
To help me with this discussion, I am going to be joined by our good friend Ron the Opinionated Veteran to help us discuss this all too important topic airing
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com3804news,podcast,mexico,media,suicide,politics,psychology,immigration,republicans,democrats,sociology,compromise,illegal,independents,shutdown,borderwall,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineAs a counselor, I have a unique perspective on the world. I have this perspective because I get to talk to people from every walk of life, political party, socio-economic status, religion, etc. I would argue that no other profession has a better feel for the heart beat of a nation than counselors. Our only goal is to help so people have a tendency to be honest with us and check all of the BS out of the door.
What I hear people talking about is not fear of illegal immigrants, terrorism. or globalism but rather fear of their children getting addicted to drugs, being depressed and committing suicide, getting bullied, fear of the influence of the internet, being taken advantage of by sexual predators, etc. That is what people worry about and who would blame them? Every year suicide & drug abuse rates go up and despite new awareness and money going towards these programs the numbers keep rising.
Just look at these statistics, according to the CDC suicide rates are growing at their highest rates and in 2016 alone 46,000 Americans age 10 or older committed suicide. That is not including the rash of well publicized cases of under 10 year-olds committing suicide due to bullying. A NSDUH drug abuse study found that over 21.5 million Americans ages 12 and older are struggling with addiction with the CDC reporting 72,000 Americans dying from drug overdoses in 2017 with 2018 trending to top that number. One would think that the news would be covering this non-stop but the problem is that the political rhetoric of border safety, globalism, democrats, republicans, etc. sucks all the air out of the room. They are talking about theoretical consequences of these problems while very real people are dying every year and at increasing numbers.
Why is this not a bigger issue? Maybe its because we think because we hear something about a billion dollars being spent on a program that we are absolved from worrying but guess what? If those programs would work they would have by now. Putting more money in a program like this, is like flapping your arms harder and hoping to fly. We have a huge problem in this country and the media and politicians are distracting us from what we really talk about in private what worry us and its time we change the conversation to the very real threats now. We need to do border security but damn it guys, I want to have a conversation about what really might hurt my 4 year-old daughter in the future and its not some illegal immigrant.
To help me with this discussion, I am going to be joined by our good friend Ron the Opinionated Veteran to help us discuss this all too important topic airing
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 12: An Honest Discussion About Age and Our Presidents With Special Guests Max Miller and Richard DeVinehttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-12-an-honest-Just 2 short years ago we had elected our oldest president Donald Trump at the young age of 70 years old, which will put him at 74 when he goes for re-election. Now this is not an article or a show that will try to say Donald Trump is a crazy old guy but I do want this show to be about an honest discussion about age and our presidents. Just the other day Joe Biden declared that he was the most qualified person to be president which would make him 78 years old when he would take office. Lets also discuss how the other expected front runners in 2020 are Bernie Sanders who would be 79, Elizabeth Warren who would be 71, and Hillary Clinton who would be 73.
So think about this for a second, most of the major front runners would be well into their 70’s with some being in their 80’s when they got out of office. Now I am not bashing on older people and saying they can’t do the job, but what I am saying is that should we have serious looks at candidates and how their cognitive functioning is at this age? I used to work for a neuro-imaging clinic and we had to assess clients in this age group all the time for what was called pre-frontal lobe dementia.
What is Pre-frontal lobe dementia you ask, it is an early onset dementia that typically begins to show symptoms around the age of 65 and attacks the pre-frontal cortex or the thinking and emotional regulation part of our brain. Here is a summary of the major symptoms of this type of dementia
Personality Changes
Personality changes that can occur because of frontal lobe dementia include:
Impulsiveness
Apathy and indifference
Socially inappropriate behavior
Cognitive Problems
Frontal lobe dementia does not cause memory loss, but it can other cognitive and neurological problems similar to those caused by Alzheimer’s disease or stroke. These symptoms can include:
Difficulty with speech and language
Inability to concentrate
Inability to plan
Using the wrong object for the wrong task, or at the wrong time
Movement and balance difficulties
What is scary about this type of dementia is that many of the patients were brought in by their family, were having significant problems at work, were often leaders of companies, and did not think anything was wrong with them. Because the symptoms were gradual in onset and not overtly present, the companies often had no real way of saying that they were incapacitated and were often left in power to make bad decisions or being taken advantage of by people who knew what was going on.
A family business is one thing, imagine what this would look like if it was a president? President Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he left office and only then did stories come out about some problems he was having. Imagine if we had a president with pre-frontal lobe dementia which some people are arguing that President Trump has been demonstrating symptoms of. To help us discuss this issue, we are joined by our good friend Max Miller of The Voice of The Radical Center on Talk 1370 AM and also joined by our own Richard “The Professor” DeVine to be our resident elderly statesman.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=255Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:13:51 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineJust 2 short years ago we had elected our oldest president Donald Trump at the young age of 70 years old, which will put him at 74 when he goes for re-election. Now this is not an article or a show that will try to say Donald Trump is a crazy old guy...Just 2 short years ago we had elected our oldest president Donald Trump at the young age of 70 years old, which will put him at 74 when he goes for re-election. Now this is not an article or a show that will try to say Donald Trump is a crazy old guy but I do want this show to be about an honest discussion about age and our presidents. Just the other day Joe Biden declared that he was the most qualified person to be president which would make him 78 years old when he would take office. Lets also discuss how the other expected front runners in 2020 are Bernie Sanders who would be 79, Elizabeth Warren who would be 71, and Hillary Clinton who would be 73.
So think about this for a second, most of the major front runners would be well into their 70’s with some being in their 80’s when they got out of office. Now I am not bashing on older people and saying they can’t do the job, but what I am saying is that should we have serious looks at candidates and how their cognitive functioning is at this age? I used to work for a neuro-imaging clinic and we had to assess clients in this age group all the time for what was called pre-frontal lobe dementia.
What is Pre-frontal lobe dementia you ask, it is an early onset dementia that typically begins to show symptoms around the age of 65 and attacks the pre-frontal cortex or the thinking and emotional regulation part of our brain. Here is a summary of the major symptoms of this type of dementia
Personality Changes
Personality changes that can occur because of frontal lobe dementia include:
Impulsiveness
Apathy and indifference
Socially inappropriate behavior
Cognitive Problems
Frontal lobe dementia does not cause memory loss, but it can other cognitive and neurological problems similar to those caused by Alzheimer’s disease or stroke. These symptoms can include:
Difficulty with speech and language
Inability to concentrate
Inability to plan
Using the wrong object for the wrong task, or at the wrong time
Movement and balance difficulties
What is scary about this type of dementia is that many of the patients were brought in by their family, were having significant problems at work, were often leaders of companies, and did not think anything was wrong with them. Because the symptoms were gradual in onset and not overtly present, the companies often had no real way of saying that they were incapacitated and were often left in power to make bad decisions or being taken advantage of by people who knew what was going on.
A family business is one thing, imagine what this would look like if it was a president? President Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he left office and only then did stories come out about some problems he was having. Imagine if we had a president with pre-frontal lobe dementia which some people are arguing that President Trump has been demonstrating symptoms of. To help us discuss this issue, we are joined by our good friend Max Miller of The Voice of The Radical Center on Talk 1370 AM and also joined by our own Richard “The Professor” DeVine to be our resident elderly statesman.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com3874news,podcast,media,illness,politics,psychology,trump,republicans,democrats,constitution,mental,sociology,dementia,compromise,aging,independents,polarization,alzeimerscleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineJust 2 short years ago we had elected our oldest president Donald Trump at the young age of 70 years old, which will put him at 74 when he goes for re-election. Now this is not an article or a show that will try to say Donald Trump is a crazy old guy but I do want this show to be about an honest discussion about age and our presidents. Just the other day Joe Biden declared that he was the most qualified person to be president which would make him 78 years old when he would take office. Lets also discuss how the other expected front runners in 2020 are Bernie Sanders who would be 79, Elizabeth Warren who would be 71, and Hillary Clinton who would be 73.
So think about this for a second, most of the major front runners would be well into their 70’s with some being in their 80’s when they got out of office. Now I am not bashing on older people and saying they can’t do the job, but what I am saying is that should we have serious looks at candidates and how their cognitive functioning is at this age? I used to work for a neuro-imaging clinic and we had to assess clients in this age group all the time for what was called pre-frontal lobe dementia.
What is Pre-frontal lobe dementia you ask, it is an early onset dementia that typically begins to show symptoms around the age of 65 and attacks the pre-frontal cortex or the thinking and emotional regulation part of our brain. Here is a summary of the major symptoms of this type of dementia
Personality Changes
Personality changes that can occur because of frontal lobe dementia include:
Impulsiveness
Apathy and indifference
Socially inappropriate behavior
Cognitive Problems
Frontal lobe dementia does not cause memory loss, but it can other cognitive and neurological problems similar to those caused by Alzheimer’s disease or stroke. These symptoms can include:
Difficulty with speech and language
Inability to concentrate
Inability to plan
Using the wrong object for the wrong task, or at the wrong time
Movement and balance difficulties
What is scary about this type of dementia is that many of the patients were brought in by their family, were having significant problems at work, were often leaders of companies, and did not think anything was wrong with them. Because the symptoms were gradual in onset and not overtly present, the companies often had no real way of saying that they were incapacitated and were often left in power to make bad decisions or being taken advantage of by people who knew what was going on.
A family business is one thing, imagine what this would look like if it was a president? President Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he left office and only then did stories come out about some problems he was having. Imagine if we had a president with pre-frontal lobe dementia which some people are arguing that President Trump has been demonstrating symptoms of. To help us discuss this issue, we are joined by our good friend Max Miller of The Voice of The Radical Center on Talk 1370 AM and also joined by our own Richard “The Professor” DeVine to be our resident elderly statesman.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 11: Michael Launches A Facebook Psy-Op On His Trump Supporting Friendhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-11-michael-laSo what is a counselor turned radio show host to do when one of his regular guests Ron the Opinionated Veteran taught him the basics of how to launch a psychological operation? Easy, he decides to use it on his Facebook friends and see what happens. Join us as we go over the Psy-Op campaign that Michael waged on his Facebook friends to see how they responded to emotionally charged comments and Michael’s attempt to bring the conversation from the polarized extremes back to the area of the in-between. Joining us in the studio will be the main guinea pig of this experiment, Michael’s friend of over 20 years & unabashed Trump supporter Ryan X. Well maybe he is still my friend…he might just be coming over to beat me up. So either way you are tuning in to Ryan talking about the experiment with us or to the silky smooth sounds of one mans fist hitting another mans face. All in a day’s work at The Gray Matters Studios.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=250Wed, 05 Dec 2018 21:53:39 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineSo what is a counselor turned radio show host to do when one of his regular guests Ron the Opinionated Veteran taught him the basics of how to launch a psychological operation? Easy, he decides to use it on his Facebook friends and see what happens....So what is a counselor turned radio show host to do when one of his regular guests Ron the Opinionated Veteran taught him the basics of how to launch a psychological operation? Easy, he decides to use it on his Facebook friends and see what happens. Join us as we go over the Psy-Op campaign that Michael waged on his Facebook friends to see how they responded to emotionally charged comments and Michael’s attempt to bring the conversation from the polarized extremes back to the area of the in-between. Joining us in the studio will be the main guinea pig of this experiment, Michael’s friend of over 20 years & unabashed Trump supporter Ryan X. Well maybe he is still my friend…he might just be coming over to beat me up. So either way you are tuning in to Ryan talking about the experiment with us or to the silky smooth sounds of one mans fist hitting another mans face. All in a day’s work at The Gray Matters Studios.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com3792news,podcast,facebook,media,politics,psychology,trump,elections,republicans,democrats,human,sociology,compromise,campaigns,psyops,independents,factors,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineSo what is a counselor turned radio show host to do when one of his regular guests Ron the Opinionated Veteran taught him the basics of how to launch a psychological operation? Easy, he decides to use it on his Facebook friends and see what happens. Join us as we go over the Psy-Op campaign that Michael waged on his Facebook friends to see how they responded to emotionally charged comments and Michael’s attempt to bring the conversation from the polarized extremes back to the area of the in-between. Joining us in the studio will be the main guinea pig of this experiment, Michael’s friend of over 20 years & unabashed Trump supporter Ryan X. Well maybe he is still my friend…he might just be coming over to beat me up. So either way you are tuning in to Ryan talking about the experiment with us or to the silky smooth sounds of one mans fist hitting another mans face. All in a day’s work at The Gray Matters Studios.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 10: What Would It Really Be Like If Trump Were Impeached?https://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-10-what-wouldIt seems like everyone keep debating whether or not Trump should/could be impeached but nobody has really talked about what the consequences to the country would be if he were. The Gray has purposely stayed out of the Trump Russiagate impeachment debate on purpose. But with Michael Cohen flipping on Trump last week and saying that he was told to lie about the Trump Organization’s business dealings with Russia, it seems like this investigation is about to really escalate and maybe we need to have a discussion about how the country was affected the last time we impeached (well Nixon resigned but would have been impeached) and what it might mean for us today. We need to have this discussion because the collateral damage for the country might not be worth it in the end….or will it? To help us dive into this issue we invite back “The Professor” Richard DeVine to talk about the Nixon impeachment and what it would mean for the country today.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttps://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=244Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:59:43 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineIt seems like everyone keep debating whether or not Trump should/could be impeached but nobody has really talked about what the consequences to the country would be if he were. The Gray has purposely stayed out of the Trump Russiagate impeachment...It seems like everyone keep debating whether or not Trump should/could be impeached but nobody has really talked about what the consequences to the country would be if he were. The Gray has purposely stayed out of the Trump Russiagate impeachment debate on purpose. But with Michael Cohen flipping on Trump last week and saying that he was told to lie about the Trump Organization’s business dealings with Russia, it seems like this investigation is about to really escalate and maybe we need to have a discussion about how the country was affected the last time we impeached (well Nixon resigned but would have been impeached) and what it might mean for us today. We need to have this discussion because the collateral damage for the country might not be worth it in the end….or will it? To help us dive into this issue we invite back “The Professor” Richard DeVine to talk about the Nixon impeachment and what it would mean for the country today.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4507news,podcast,media,history,economy,politics,psychology,trump,republicans,democrats,sociology,compromise,nixon,impeachment,independents,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineIt seems like everyone keep debating whether or not Trump should/could be impeached but nobody has really talked about what the consequences to the country would be if he were. The Gray has purposely stayed out of the Trump Russiagate impeachment debate on purpose. But with Michael Cohen flipping on Trump last week and saying that he was told to lie about the Trump Organization’s business dealings with Russia, it seems like this investigation is about to really escalate and maybe we need to have a discussion about how the country was affected the last time we impeached (well Nixon resigned but would have been impeached) and what it might mean for us today. We need to have this discussion because the collateral damage for the country might not be worth it in the end….or will it? To help us dive into this issue we invite back “The Professor” Richard DeVine to talk about the Nixon impeachment and what it would mean for the country today.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 9: Black Friday Night Fights: “The Brawl In The Mall”https://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-9-black-fridaSounds like a great title for a MMA Pay-Per-View event doesn’t it? But unfortunately this isn’t a PPV event, this is the sad reality of the holiday season that just began. It seems like every year the violence in malls and retailers across the nation get worse and worse…yet retailers seem to up the ante every year. What started out as a discussion years ago about the holidays becoming less about family and faith and more about stuff we don’t need has now become a discussion about people getting hurt and killed over stuff they don’t need. A holiday that has people leaving their families on Thanksgiving, a holiday that is supposed to be about being with family and being thankful for what you have, to go a buy stuff that they don’t need and fight people for it.
Something is just so wrong when people are getting hurt on a regular basis and videos all over the internet show something that more resembles the hunger games than anything else. To help us understand what the hell is going on we have our good friend neuro-psychologist Dr. Julilan Osuji of the Dallas Neuro-Rehab Clinic to lay down some truth and to guide us on what we can do to stop this trend.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttp://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=226Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:03:56 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineSounds like a great title for a MMA Pay-Per-View event doesn’t it? But unfortunately this isn’t a PPV event, this is the sad reality of the holiday season that just began. It seems like every year the violence in malls and retailers across the nation...Sounds like a great title for a MMA Pay-Per-View event doesn’t it? But unfortunately this isn’t a PPV event, this is the sad reality of the holiday season that just began. It seems like every year the violence in malls and retailers across the nation get worse and worse…yet retailers seem to up the ante every year. What started out as a discussion years ago about the holidays becoming less about family and faith and more about stuff we don’t need has now become a discussion about people getting hurt and killed over stuff they don’t need. A holiday that has people leaving their families on Thanksgiving, a holiday that is supposed to be about being with family and being thankful for what you have, to go a buy stuff that they don’t need and fight people for it.
Something is just so wrong when people are getting hurt on a regular basis and videos all over the internet show something that more resembles the hunger games than anything else. To help us understand what the hell is going on we have our good friend neuro-psychologist Dr. Julilan Osuji of the Dallas Neuro-Rehab Clinic to lay down some truth and to guide us on what we can do to stop this trend.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com3626news,podcast,black,media,friday,politics,psychology,republicans,democrats,greed,sociology,christmas,compromise,independents,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineSounds like a great title for a MMA Pay-Per-View event doesn’t it? But unfortunately this isn’t a PPV event, this is the sad reality of the holiday season that just began. It seems like every year the violence in malls and retailers across the nation get worse and worse…yet retailers seem to up the ante every year. What started out as a discussion years ago about the holidays becoming less about family and faith and more about stuff we don’t need has now become a discussion about people getting hurt and killed over stuff they don’t need. A holiday that has people leaving their families on Thanksgiving, a holiday that is supposed to be about being with family and being thankful for what you have, to go a buy stuff that they don’t need and fight people for it.
Something is just so wrong when people are getting hurt on a regular basis and videos all over the internet show something that more resembles the hunger games than anything else. To help us understand what the hell is going on we have our good friend neuro-psychologist Dr. Julilan Osuji of the Dallas Neuro-Rehab Clinic to lay down some truth and to guide us on what we can do to stop this trend.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 8: Are Campaigns & The Media Going Too Far In Using Psychology For Votes & Ratings?https://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-8-are-campaigOn the very first day of social psychology class, it wasn’t a coincidence that the first lesson was how campaigns and the media uses psychology to get votes and ratings. It is the inevitable result when the field of psychology started really understanding how humans work. Only in my field we use it to help people and business, politicians, and the media uses it to help themselves. One of the reasons that I didn’t go into the lucrative human factors field was because I felt as though it was selling myself to the devil and it went against my own internal moral compass.
Now, I am not saying that it is bad to use psychology in any of these areas but what I am saying is that who is there to decide that maybe there is a line that you don’t cross? In the 1970’s it was the government drawing that line in the sand with subliminal advertising but since then we are trusting these industries to police themselves. With the rise of the internet and social media, no other time have these entities had a direct main line into the human brain 24 hours a day 7 days a week. As a result, the effectiveness of their methods exponentially grew but so has the negative effects.
Between families and friends being torn apart, unhinged people shooting people and mailing bombs, people flocking into therapy for anxiety and depression, and a public debacle of a government completely polarized and unable to solve any major issues…one has to ask not only have these entities gone too far in using psychology but do they actually know the negative effects it is having and choose to continue using them anyways? That is the million dollar question that every American deserves to know the answer to.
To help us explore this important topic, joining us in The Gray this week will be Ron The Opinionated Veteran , fellow podcaster & co-host of the Max Miller Show who is a retired forensic investigator for the US Army and has also worked for several Republican campaigns. If there is anybody who has the knowledge and balls to discuss this topic with us it will be him. Plus this topic scares me and it makes me feel better to know that if anyone messes with The Gray they have the US Army to deal with!
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttp://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=213Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:47:59 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineOn the very first day of social psychology class, it wasn’t a coincidence that the first lesson was how campaigns and the media uses psychology to get votes and ratings. It is the inevitable result when the field of psychology started really...On the very first day of social psychology class, it wasn’t a coincidence that the first lesson was how campaigns and the media uses psychology to get votes and ratings. It is the inevitable result when the field of psychology started really understanding how humans work. Only in my field we use it to help people and business, politicians, and the media uses it to help themselves. One of the reasons that I didn’t go into the lucrative human factors field was because I felt as though it was selling myself to the devil and it went against my own internal moral compass.
Now, I am not saying that it is bad to use psychology in any of these areas but what I am saying is that who is there to decide that maybe there is a line that you don’t cross? In the 1970’s it was the government drawing that line in the sand with subliminal advertising but since then we are trusting these industries to police themselves. With the rise of the internet and social media, no other time have these entities had a direct main line into the human brain 24 hours a day 7 days a week. As a result, the effectiveness of their methods exponentially grew but so has the negative effects.
Between families and friends being torn apart, unhinged people shooting people and mailing bombs, people flocking into therapy for anxiety and depression, and a public debacle of a government completely polarized and unable to solve any major issues…one has to ask not only have these entities gone too far in using psychology but do they actually know the negative effects it is having and choose to continue using them anyways? That is the million dollar question that every American deserves to know the answer to.
To help us explore this important topic, joining us in The Gray this week will be Ron The Opinionated Veteran , fellow podcaster & co-host of the Max Miller Show who is a retired forensic investigator for the US Army and has also worked for several Republican campaigns. If there is anybody who has the knowledge and balls to discuss this topic with us it will be him. Plus this topic scares me and it makes me feel better to know that if anyone messes with The Gray they have the US Army to deal with!
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com3697news,podcast,media,politics,ethics,psychology,elections,republicans,democrats,sociology,compromise,campaigns,psyops,independents,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineOn the very first day of social psychology class, it wasn’t a coincidence that the first lesson was how campaigns and the media uses psychology to get votes and ratings. It is the inevitable result when the field of psychology started really understanding how humans work. Only in my field we use it to help people and business, politicians, and the media uses it to help themselves. One of the reasons that I didn’t go into the lucrative human factors field was because I felt as though it was selling myself to the devil and it went against my own internal moral compass.
Now, I am not saying that it is bad to use psychology in any of these areas but what I am saying is that who is there to decide that maybe there is a line that you don’t cross? In the 1970’s it was the government drawing that line in the sand with subliminal advertising but since then we are trusting these industries to police themselves. With the rise of the internet and social media, no other time have these entities had a direct main line into the human brain 24 hours a day 7 days a week. As a result, the effectiveness of their methods exponentially grew but so has the negative effects.
Between families and friends being torn apart, unhinged people shooting people and mailing bombs, people flocking into therapy for anxiety and depression, and a public debacle of a government completely polarized and unable to solve any major issues…one has to ask not only have these entities gone too far in using psychology but do they actually know the negative effects it is having and choose to continue using them anyways? That is the million dollar question that every American deserves to know the answer to.
To help us explore this important topic, joining us in The Gray this week will be Ron The Opinionated Veteran , fellow podcaster & co-host of the Max Miller Show who is a retired forensic investigator for the US Army and has also worked for several Republican campaigns. If there is anybody who has the knowledge and balls to discuss this topic with us it will be him. Plus this topic scares me and it makes me feel better to know that if anyone messes with The Gray they have the US Army to deal with!
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 7: I Didn’t Realize How Many People Were Forest Fire Fightershttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-7-i-didn-t-reIn case you haven’t seen the news, but apparently the fastest growing occupation in America is forest fire fighter and you can become a certified expert in less than one week. Of course we are being facetious but the debate between people on facebook and talking heads on the media seem to think they are experts on fighting forest fires and who is to blame. Our president surely didn’t help when he tweeted out during the fires that Calfire and by-proxy the democratic state of California was largely to blame. Regardless of your opinions of the causes, Americans once again are egged into a fight with each other and taking sides to a debate that they really do not know anything about. It is like my 4 year-old daughter arguing with me that allergens are really tiny green monsters that reside in your nose and that she is going to tell mom on me that I am wrong. So, The Gray is once again diving into the metaphorical fire and taking this head on. Join us as we break down the facebook discussions between our followers like John Madden and fact check every comment that was made. You might be surprised at what we discovered.
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Research From The Show:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jerry-brown-veto-wildfire-bill/?fbclid=IwAR2qi4TaD8EzvLEvYNlMp6xmzyPLM1X1AIhE1z3PVAU_r3VYvn2k_Fbaj2A
http://www.govtech.com/fs/infrastructure/California-Will-Spend-1-Billion-on-Wildfire-Prevention-Give-Some-Relief-to-Utility-Companies.html?fbclid=IwAR0Xzg6TjnPN_6Mz_wH1yL5-5guVMBKFMqflvT5h7mQZBTHO5OarbvC_KYw
https://www.kqed.org/science/16415/california-wildfire-study-spend-on-prevention-to-save-on-disasters?fbclid=IwAR19sM1XAYL12yEVj6usPxwN8NdMJYz5LcZl81NoJjRRXq37yNbb0TQig-w
https://ucanr.edu/sites/forestry/California_forests/?fbclid=IwAR0YDL8x8Ss9n92O46Ft22ID-9jf_FD40DKQaQMxjO8S_WwUG_tcb5wIf0whttp://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=207Thu, 15 Nov 2018 05:11:24 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineIn case you haven’t seen the news, but apparently the fastest growing occupation in America is forest fire fighter and you can become a certified expert in less than one week. Of course we are being facetious but the debate between people on facebook...In case you haven’t seen the news, but apparently the fastest growing occupation in America is forest fire fighter and you can become a certified expert in less than one week. Of course we are being facetious but the debate between people on facebook and talking heads on the media seem to think they are experts on fighting forest fires and who is to blame. Our president surely didn’t help when he tweeted out during the fires that Calfire and by-proxy the democratic state of California was largely to blame. Regardless of your opinions of the causes, Americans once again are egged into a fight with each other and taking sides to a debate that they really do not know anything about. It is like my 4 year-old daughter arguing with me that allergens are really tiny green monsters that reside in your nose and that she is going to tell mom on me that I am wrong. So, The Gray is once again diving into the metaphorical fire and taking this head on. Join us as we break down the facebook discussions between our followers like John Madden and fact check every comment that was made. You might be surprised at what we discovered.
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Research From The Show:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jerry-brown-veto-wildfire-bill/?fbclid=IwAR2qi4TaD8EzvLEvYNlMp6xmzyPLM1X1AIhE1z3PVAU_r3VYvn2k_Fbaj2A
http://www.govtech.com/fs/infrastructure/California-Will-Spend-1-Billion-on-Wildfire-Prevention-Give-Some-Relief-to-Utility-Companies.html?fbclid=IwAR0Xzg6TjnPN_6Mz_wH1yL5-5guVMBKFMqflvT5h7mQZBTHO5OarbvC_KYw
https://www.kqed.org/science/16415/california-wildfire-study-spend-on-prevention-to-save-on-disasters?fbclid=IwAR19sM1XAYL12yEVj6usPxwN8NdMJYz5LcZl81NoJjRRXq37yNbb0TQig-w
https://ucanr.edu/sites/forestry/California_forests/?fbclid=IwAR0YDL8x8Ss9n92O46Ft22ID-9jf_FD40DKQaQMxjO8S_WwUG_tcb5wIf0w3233news,podcast,media,politics,change,psychology,trump,republicans,democrats,climate,sociology,compromise,forrest,independents,fires,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineIn case you haven’t seen the news, but apparently the fastest growing occupation in America is forest fire fighter and you can become a certified expert in less than one week. Of course we are being facetious but the debate between people on facebook and talking heads on the media seem to think they are experts on fighting forest fires and who is to blame. Our president surely didn’t help when he tweeted out during the fires that Calfire and by-proxy the democratic state of California was largely to blame. Regardless of your opinions of the causes, Americans once again are egged into a fight with each other and taking sides to a debate that they really do not know anything about. It is like my 4 year-old daughter arguing with me that allergens are really tiny green monsters that reside in your nose and that she is going to tell mom on me that I am wrong. So, The Gray is once again diving into the metaphorical fire and taking this head on. Join us as we break down the facebook discussions between our followers like John Madden and fact check every comment that was made. You might be surprised at what we discovered.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com
Research From The Show:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jerry-brown-veto-wildfire-bill/?fbclid=IwAR2qi4TaD8EzvLEvYNlMp6xmzyPLM1X1AIhE1z3PVAU_r3VYvn2k_Fbaj2A
http://www.govtech.com/fs/infrastructure/California-Will-Spend-1-Billion-on-Wildfire-Prevention-Give-Some-Relief-to-Utility-Companies.html?fbclid=IwAR0Xzg6TjnPN_6Mz_wH1yL5-5guVMBKFMqflvT5h7mQZBTHO5OarbvC_KYw
https://www.kqed.org/science/16415/california-wildfire-study-spend-on-prevention-to-save-on-disasters?fbclid=IwAR19sM1XAYL12yEVj6usPxwN8NdMJYz5LcZl81NoJjRRXq37yNbb0TQig-w
https://ucanr.edu/sites/forestry/California_forests/?fbclid=IwAR0YDL8x8Ss9n92O46Ft22ID-9jf_FD40DKQaQMxjO8S_WwUG_tcb5wIf0wNoGray Matters Radio Episode 6: The Gray’s Take On The 2018 Electionhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-6-the-gray-s-Want to know the best thing about being a counselor? I can read people’s minds! I knew you were dying for The Gray’s take on the mid-term elections…well you got it. The media and the politicians have had their chance to interpret the 2018 election, now it’s The Gray’s turn. This was a very important election that will set the tone not only for the 2020 presidential election, but for the future of the country. Based on how each side interprets why democrats won the house and why the republicans won the senate will set the stage for what they think the people want and how they will govern. Will Nancy Pelosi survive as the house speaker? Was this a referendum on Donald Trump? Was it more about people voting out incumbents? All of this is discussed and more.Joining Michael in the studio to dissect the election is “The Everyman” Domenic Buccilla and “The Professor” Richard DeVine for this very special episode of Gray Matters with Michael DeVine.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttp://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=202Fri, 09 Nov 2018 23:37:27 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineWant to know the best thing about being a counselor? I can read people’s minds! I knew you were dying for The Gray’s take on the mid-term elections…well you got it. The media and the politicians have had their chance to interpret the 2018 election,...Want to know the best thing about being a counselor? I can read people’s minds! I knew you were dying for The Gray’s take on the mid-term elections…well you got it. The media and the politicians have had their chance to interpret the 2018 election, now it’s The Gray’s turn. This was a very important election that will set the tone not only for the 2020 presidential election, but for the future of the country. Based on how each side interprets why democrats won the house and why the republicans won the senate will set the stage for what they think the people want and how they will govern. Will Nancy Pelosi survive as the house speaker? Was this a referendum on Donald Trump? Was it more about people voting out incumbents? All of this is discussed and more.Joining Michael in the studio to dissect the election is “The Everyman” Domenic Buccilla and “The Professor” Richard DeVine for this very special episode of Gray Matters with Michael DeVine.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4039news,podcast,media,politics,psychology,trump,election,republicans,democrats,senate,congress,sociology,compromise,independents,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineWant to know the best thing about being a counselor? I can read people’s minds! I knew you were dying for The Gray’s take on the mid-term elections…well you got it. The media and the politicians have had their chance to interpret the 2018 election, now it’s The Gray’s turn. This was a very important election that will set the tone not only for the 2020 presidential election, but for the future of the country. Based on how each side interprets why democrats won the house and why the republicans won the senate will set the stage for what they think the people want and how they will govern. Will Nancy Pelosi survive as the house speaker? Was this a referendum on Donald Trump? Was it more about people voting out incumbents? All of this is discussed and more.Joining Michael in the studio to dissect the election is “The Everyman” Domenic Buccilla and “The Professor” Richard DeVine for this very special episode of Gray Matters with Michael DeVine.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 5: Why Not Interview A Real Illegal Immigrant? Special Anonymous Guesthttps://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-5-swan-dive-iI must be crazy as hell to dive into this immigration debate but I feel like I have to. Growing up in Ohio and living a large portion of my adult life in Texas, I have a rather unique perspective of immigration. I have clients who are immigrants (both legal and illegal) and consult with businesses who tend to employ cheaper immigrant laborers so I think my perspective is quite well rounded. Since it seems like this is one of the biggest debates sucking all of the air out of the room before elections tomorrow, we felt at The Gray we owed it to you to tackle this topic. Joining us in the studio will be an anonymous guest who has had immigration and status issues in the past several years that wanted to share her story. This guest is quite interesting because they have lived in America since they were 9 months old, married an American husband, and has children, works a full-time job, and yet because a shady company threw their employees under the bus and were charged with crimes this guest now has immigration issues.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttp://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=197Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:45:21 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineI must be crazy as hell to dive into this immigration debate but I feel like I have to. Growing up in Ohio and living a large portion of my adult life in Texas, I have a rather unique perspective of immigration. I have clients who are immigrants (both...I must be crazy as hell to dive into this immigration debate but I feel like I have to. Growing up in Ohio and living a large portion of my adult life in Texas, I have a rather unique perspective of immigration. I have clients who are immigrants (both legal and illegal) and consult with businesses who tend to employ cheaper immigrant laborers so I think my perspective is quite well rounded. Since it seems like this is one of the biggest debates sucking all of the air out of the room before elections tomorrow, we felt at The Gray we owed it to you to tackle this topic. Joining us in the studio will be an anonymous guest who has had immigration and status issues in the past several years that wanted to share her story. This guest is quite interesting because they have lived in America since they were 9 months old, married an American husband, and has children, works a full-time job, and yet because a shady company threw their employees under the bus and were charged with crimes this guest now has immigration issues.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4666news,podcast,mexico,media,politics,psychology,trump,immigration,republicans,democrats,sociology,compromise,illegal,amnesty,independents,racisim,borderwall,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineI must be crazy as hell to dive into this immigration debate but I feel like I have to. Growing up in Ohio and living a large portion of my adult life in Texas, I have a rather unique perspective of immigration. I have clients who are immigrants (both legal and illegal) and consult with businesses who tend to employ cheaper immigrant laborers so I think my perspective is quite well rounded. Since it seems like this is one of the biggest debates sucking all of the air out of the room before elections tomorrow, we felt at The Gray we owed it to you to tackle this topic. Joining us in the studio will be an anonymous guest who has had immigration and status issues in the past several years that wanted to share her story. This guest is quite interesting because they have lived in America since they were 9 months old, married an American husband, and has children, works a full-time job, and yet because a shady company threw their employees under the bus and were charged with crimes this guest now has immigration issues.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 4: Want To Know Why Healthcare Is A Train Wreck?https://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-4-want-to-knoWant to start a fight easily with someone…bring up healthcare and watch and see what happens. Two people duking it out over whether we should scrap Obamacare or have a socialized healthcare for all system. All you have to do is turn on the radio or a 24/hr cable news network and you hear the same arguments going on and on forever. They like to make you think that there are only two options and “Their” side is what is right and the other person is either a communist or heartless. But I am here to drop a bomb on you…healthcare in this country is a train wreck because the powers that be want everyone arguing over bullshit so we do not ask the real questions as to why it is this way. Because if we really understood why things are so messed up they would have an angry electorate and many people would lose elections and executives in the Medical Industrial Complex would lose millions.
I could make a case based on my experiences as a clinician and as an employee of an insurance company but that would not be enough to really get you to believe what you are going to learn on our show Monday night. The truth is that 90% of the problem of healthcare is on the supply side of healthcare, meaning that the pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, hospitals, surgeons, supplies, etc. are the reason why things are so messed up. Funny how you never hear one politician talking about the supply side of healthcare and instead get us to fight with each other over socialized healthcare for all or scraping Obamacare for…well the same system that existed before.
I know you don’t believe me yet, but tune in tomorrow night to find out. Joining me in the studio are two special guests who have a combined 50 years in the healthcare industry as executives and consultants for hospitals, healthcare consulting firms, and the medical industrial complex. Richard DeVine (yes he is my father) was a chief resource officer with a multi-state healthcare company as well as a retired supply chain consultant with one of the nations biggest healthcare consulting firm (which cannot be named in an agreement for getting permission to come on the show). Also joining us in The Gray will be Brendan X, a self-described “Cynical Libertarian” with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare consulting industry who only agreed to come on the show and share his insights if we did not disclose his true identity. I wish I was making this up but I was only able to get my father and Brendan to come on the show if I hid the companies they have worked or currently work for.
This is the reality of the world that we are living in but these two men have decided to finally come forward to share information that they know will anger you and make you demand our elected officials start to serve us ,the people rather than the profits of huge corporations. Their thoughts are that if Americans understood why the healthcare system was a train wreck, they would be able to call out their politicians for lying or misdirecting them and demand change or will put people in charge that will. Like I have said on my show countless times, the time is over to naively believe that they will change rather it is up to us to be the change agents in this country. This is a show that you will want to forward on to your friends, families, and colleagues so don’t miss out. I know you are busy but if you are only going to give my show one shot, this is the show to listen to.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttp://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=193Mon, 29 Oct 2018 04:08:37 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineWant to start a fight easily with someone…bring up healthcare and watch and see what happens. Two people duking it out over whether we should scrap Obamacare or have a socialized healthcare for all system. All you have to do is turn on the radio or a...Want to start a fight easily with someone…bring up healthcare and watch and see what happens. Two people duking it out over whether we should scrap Obamacare or have a socialized healthcare for all system. All you have to do is turn on the radio or a 24/hr cable news network and you hear the same arguments going on and on forever. They like to make you think that there are only two options and “Their” side is what is right and the other person is either a communist or heartless. But I am here to drop a bomb on you…healthcare in this country is a train wreck because the powers that be want everyone arguing over bullshit so we do not ask the real questions as to why it is this way. Because if we really understood why things are so messed up they would have an angry electorate and many people would lose elections and executives in the Medical Industrial Complex would lose millions.
I could make a case based on my experiences as a clinician and as an employee of an insurance company but that would not be enough to really get you to believe what you are going to learn on our show Monday night. The truth is that 90% of the problem of healthcare is on the supply side of healthcare, meaning that the pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, hospitals, surgeons, supplies, etc. are the reason why things are so messed up. Funny how you never hear one politician talking about the supply side of healthcare and instead get us to fight with each other over socialized healthcare for all or scraping Obamacare for…well the same system that existed before.
I know you don’t believe me yet, but tune in tomorrow night to find out. Joining me in the studio are two special guests who have a combined 50 years in the healthcare industry as executives and consultants for hospitals, healthcare consulting firms, and the medical industrial complex. Richard DeVine (yes he is my father) was a chief resource officer with a multi-state healthcare company as well as a retired supply chain consultant with one of the nations biggest healthcare consulting firm (which cannot be named in an agreement for getting permission to come on the show). Also joining us in The Gray will be Brendan X, a self-described “Cynical Libertarian” with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare consulting industry who only agreed to come on the show and share his insights if we did not disclose his true identity. I wish I was making this up but I was only able to get my father and Brendan to come on the show if I hid the companies they have worked or currently work for.
This is the reality of the world that we are living in but these two men have decided to finally come forward to share information that they know will anger you and make you demand our elected officials start to serve us ,the people rather than the profits of huge corporations. Their thoughts are that if Americans understood why the healthcare system was a train wreck, they would be able to call out their politicians for lying or misdirecting them and demand change or will put people in charge that will. Like I have said on my show countless times, the time is over to naively believe that they will change rather it is up to us to be the change agents in this country. This is a show that you will want to forward on to your friends, families, and colleagues so don’t miss out. I know you are busy but if you are only going to give my show one shot, this is the show to listen to.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4994news,podcast,media,politics,medicine,psychology,trump,healthcare,medicare,republicans,democrats,socialism,sociology,compromise,insurance,independents,medicaid,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineWant to start a fight easily with someone…bring up healthcare and watch and see what happens. Two people duking it out over whether we should scrap Obamacare or have a socialized healthcare for all system. All you have to do is turn on the radio or a 24/hr cable news network and you hear the same arguments going on and on forever. They like to make you think that there are only two options and “Their” side is what is right and the other person is either a communist or heartless. But I am here to drop a bomb on you…healthcare in this country is a train wreck because the powers that be want everyone arguing over bullshit so we do not ask the real questions as to why it is this way. Because if we really understood why things are so messed up they would have an angry electorate and many people would lose elections and executives in the Medical Industrial Complex would lose millions.
I could make a case based on my experiences as a clinician and as an employee of an insurance company but that would not be enough to really get you to believe what you are going to learn on our show Monday night. The truth is that 90% of the problem of healthcare is on the supply side of healthcare, meaning that the pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, hospitals, surgeons, supplies, etc. are the reason why things are so messed up. Funny how you never hear one politician talking about the supply side of healthcare and instead get us to fight with each other over socialized healthcare for all or scraping Obamacare for…well the same system that existed before.
I know you don’t believe me yet, but tune in tomorrow night to find out. Joining me in the studio are two special guests who have a combined 50 years in the healthcare industry as executives and consultants for hospitals, healthcare consulting firms, and the medical industrial complex. Richard DeVine (yes he is my father) was a chief resource officer with a multi-state healthcare company as well as a retired supply chain consultant with one of the nations biggest healthcare consulting firm (which cannot be named in an agreement for getting permission to come on the show). Also joining us in The Gray will be Brendan X, a self-described “Cynical Libertarian” with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare consulting industry who only agreed to come on the show and share his insights if we did not disclose his true identity. I wish I was making this up but I was only able to get my father and Brendan to come on the show if I hid the companies they have worked or currently work for.
This is the reality of the world that we are living in but these two men have decided to finally come forward to share information that they know will anger you and make you demand our elected officials start to serve us ,the people rather than the profits of huge corporations. Their thoughts are that if Americans understood why the healthcare system was a train wreck, they would be able to call out their politicians for lying or misdirecting them and demand change or will put people in charge that will. Like I have said on my show countless times, the time is over to naively believe that they will change rather it is up to us to be the change agents in this country. This is a show that you will want to forward on to your friends, families, and colleagues so don’t miss out. I know you are busy but if you are only going to give my show one shot, this is the show to listen to.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 3: “Mainstream Conspiracy Theories? Oxymorons No More”https://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-3-mainstream-So I guess it only took 1 day after the bombings for the false flag conspiracy theories to come to life. A congressman was on the news last night literally saying that despite there being no evidence, no one could prove it wrong. Powerful statement isn’t it from a sitting congressman? Who or what is to blame for conspiracy theories infiltrating public political discourse? Dudes n Beer I am looking in your direction. Join us for a special Saturday night live 10:00est episode of Gray Matters Radio where Bill Reed join us in the gray to discuss how conspiracy theories have become the go to tactic to get elected and ratings.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttp://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=188Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:25:29 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineSo I guess it only took 1 day after the bombings for the false flag conspiracy theories to come to life. A congressman was on the news last night literally saying that despite there being no evidence, no one could prove it wrong. Powerful statement...So I guess it only took 1 day after the bombings for the false flag conspiracy theories to come to life. A congressman was on the news last night literally saying that despite there being no evidence, no one could prove it wrong. Powerful statement isn’t it from a sitting congressman? Who or what is to blame for conspiracy theories infiltrating public political discourse? Dudes n Beer I am looking in your direction. Join us for a special Saturday night live 10:00est episode of Gray Matters Radio where Bill Reed join us in the gray to discuss how conspiracy theories have become the go to tactic to get elected and ratings.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com7036news,podcast,new,media,world,ufo,conspiracy,politics,psychology,trump,republicans,democrats,cia,sociology,compromise,order,theories,independents,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineSo I guess it only took 1 day after the bombings for the false flag conspiracy theories to come to life. A congressman was on the news last night literally saying that despite there being no evidence, no one could prove it wrong. Powerful statement isn’t it from a sitting congressman? Who or what is to blame for conspiracy theories infiltrating public political discourse? Dudes n Beer I am looking in your direction. Join us for a special Saturday night live 10:00est episode of Gray Matters Radio where Bill Reed join us in the gray to discuss how conspiracy theories have become the go to tactic to get elected and ratings.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 2: “The Gang Talks About Racism In America”https://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-2-the-gang-taSo we haven’t been cancelled yet…wait let me check…okay definitely have not been cancelled yet so that means more Gray Matters with Michael DeVine. Joining me in The Gray this week is my steadfast co-host Chris Jordan of the Dudes and Beer Podcast as well as this weeks special guest Leon Cradle. This weeks episode will focus on the explosion of racist incidents being uploaded to social media across the country where we attempt to understand the dynamics behind these incidents and how it is affecting our ability as a country to solve major problems such as crime, poverty, and addiction.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttp://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=183Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:31:41 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineSo we haven’t been cancelled yet…wait let me check…okay definitely have not been cancelled yet so that means more Gray Matters with Michael DeVine. Joining me in The Gray this week is my steadfast co-host Chris Jordan of the Dudes and Beer Podcast as...So we haven’t been cancelled yet…wait let me check…okay definitely have not been cancelled yet so that means more Gray Matters with Michael DeVine. Joining me in The Gray this week is my steadfast co-host Chris Jordan of the Dudes and Beer Podcast as well as this weeks special guest Leon Cradle. This weeks episode will focus on the explosion of racist incidents being uploaded to social media across the country where we attempt to understand the dynamics behind these incidents and how it is affecting our ability as a country to solve major problems such as crime, poverty, and addiction.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com4444news,podcast,black,media,white,politics,racism,psychology,trump,republicans,democrats,sociology,compromise,independents,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineSo we haven’t been cancelled yet…wait let me check…okay definitely have not been cancelled yet so that means more Gray Matters with Michael DeVine. Joining me in The Gray this week is my steadfast co-host Chris Jordan of the Dudes and Beer Podcast as well as this weeks special guest Leon Cradle. This weeks episode will focus on the explosion of racist incidents being uploaded to social media across the country where we attempt to understand the dynamics behind these incidents and how it is affecting our ability as a country to solve major problems such as crime, poverty, and addiction.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNoGray Matters Radio Episode 1: “Rising Above The Fray”https://www.spreaker.com/user/thereportersnetwork/gray-matters-radio-episode-1-rising-abovI sat here several times and tried to figure out what is the best way to write a summary for your very first episode. I mean…what can you really say that will capture every emotion that you are feeling in addition to explaining what the hell this show is going to be about? So let’s just make it simple shall we? Joining me in the studio tonight is my co-host Chris Jordan, the owner of the HCuniversal Network and host of the Dudes and Beer podcast on the HCuniversal Network. Tonight’s show will focus on looking at the toxic environment of social media interactions and how it has played a role in supercharging the hyper-polarization that we see in politics, media, and our own lives. Just as how social media played a huge role in this hyper-polarized environment, we explore using social media as just as effective tool in reversing it and humanizing each other again. Instead of asking experts for their opinions on this first show, we set the stage for a new dialogue in this country and instead use the voices of…gulp…real people! I know…scary huh? We are hitting the ground running on Episode 1 of Gray Matters so join us in the gray.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comhttp://www.graymattersradio.org/?p=169Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:55:50 +0000Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineI sat here several times and tried to figure out what is the best way to write a summary for your very first episode. I mean…what can you really say that will capture every emotion that you are feeling in addition to explaining what the hell this show...I sat here several times and tried to figure out what is the best way to write a summary for your very first episode. I mean…what can you really say that will capture every emotion that you are feeling in addition to explaining what the hell this show is going to be about? So let’s just make it simple shall we? Joining me in the studio tonight is my co-host Chris Jordan, the owner of the HCuniversal Network and host of the Dudes and Beer podcast on the HCuniversal Network. Tonight’s show will focus on looking at the toxic environment of social media interactions and how it has played a role in supercharging the hyper-polarization that we see in politics, media, and our own lives. Just as how social media played a huge role in this hyper-polarized environment, we explore using social media as just as effective tool in reversing it and humanizing each other again. Instead of asking experts for their opinions on this first show, we set the stage for a new dialogue in this country and instead use the voices of…gulp…real people! I know…scary huh? We are hitting the ground running on Episode 1 of Gray Matters so join us in the gray.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.com5744news,podcast,media,politics,psychology,republicans,democrats,sociology,compromise,independents,polarizationcleanfullGray Matters Radio With Michael DeVineI sat here several times and tried to figure out what is the best way to write a summary for your very first episode. I mean…what can you really say that will capture every emotion that you are feeling in addition to explaining what the hell this show is going to be about? So let’s just make it simple shall we? Joining me in the studio tonight is my co-host Chris Jordan, the owner of the HCuniversal Network and host of the Dudes and Beer podcast on the HCuniversal Network. Tonight’s show will focus on looking at the toxic environment of social media interactions and how it has played a role in supercharging the hyper-polarization that we see in politics, media, and our own lives. Just as how social media played a huge role in this hyper-polarized environment, we explore using social media as just as effective tool in reversing it and humanizing each other again. Instead of asking experts for their opinions on this first show, we set the stage for a new dialogue in this country and instead use the voices of…gulp…real people! I know…scary huh? We are hitting the ground running on Episode 1 of Gray Matters so join us in the gray.
Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts & TheReporters.comNo